Papists Act 1740

United Kingdom legislation
Papists Act 1740
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to indemnify protestant purchasers of estates of papists, against the penalties or forfeitures papists are liable to, for not having inrolled their estates, in pursuance of an act of the third year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, for that purpose.
Citation14 Geo. 2. c. 21
Dates
Repealed15 July 1867
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1867
Relates toPapists Act 1716
Status: Repealed

The Papists Act 1740 (14 Geo. 2. c. 21) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of Great Britain during the reign of George II. Its long title was "An Act to indemnify protestant purchasers of estates of papists, against the penalties or forfeitures papists are liable to, for not having inrolled their estates, in pursuance of an act of the third year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, for that purpose".[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large, from the Ninth to the 15th Year of King George II: Vol. XVII (Cambridge, 1765), p. 438.
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