Legitimacy Declaration Act 1858
1858 c.93
An Act to enable Persons to establish Legitimacy and the Validity of Marriages, and the Right to be deemed natural-born Subjects.
Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
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9F4 Persons domiciled in Scotland may insist, on an action of declarator, that he is a natural-born subject.
Any person domiciled in Scotland, or claiming any heritable or moveable property situate in Scotland, may raise and insist, in an action of declarator before the Court of Session, for the purpose of having it found and declared that he is entitled to be deemed a . . . . . . F5F6Commonwealth citizen; and the said Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such action of declarator, in the same manner and to the same effect, and with the same power to award expenses, as they have in declarators of legitimacy and declarators of bastardy.
10F7 No proceedings to affect final Judgments, &c. already pronounced.
No proceeding to be had under this Act shall affect any final judgment or decree already pronounced or made by any Court of competent jurisdiction.
11F8 Acts to be read together. Short title.
The M1Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, and this Act shall be construed together as one Act; and this Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Legitimacy Declaration Act, 1858.”
Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)