List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1840

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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1840.

Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either

list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. For acts passed from 1707 to 1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland
.

For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament, the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant

Arabic numerals
in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3".

Some of these acts have a

short title. Some of these acts have never had a short title. Some of these acts have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896
.

3 & 4 Vict.

The third session of the

13th Parliament of the United Kingdom
, which met from 16 January 1840 to 11 August 1840.

Public general acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840[1]
or the Cathedrals Act 1840
3 & 4 Vict. c. 113
11 August 1840
An Act to carry into effect, with certain modifications, the Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues.
  1. 13 Geo. 2
    . c. 19)
  2. 12 Geo. 2
    . c. 28)
  3. 1 & 2 Vict.
    c. 109)
  4. 1 Geo. 1. St. 2
    . c. 10)
  5. 5 & 6 Will. 4
    . c. 53)
  6. 43 Eliz. 1
    . c. 6)
  7. 22 & 23 Cha. 2
    . c. 9)
  8. 2 & 3 Vict.
    c. 56)
  9. 2 & 3 Vict.
    c. 28)
  10. 7 Geo. 4
    . c. 74)
  11. 9 Ann.
    c. 25)
  12. 9 Geo. 4
    . c. 83)
  13. 1 & 2 Vict.
    c. 102)
  14. 2 & 3 Vict.
    c. 96)
  15. 1 & 2 Vict.
    c. 110)
  16. 2 & 3 Vict.
    c. 37)
  17. 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict.
    c. 80)
  18. 2 & 3 Vict.
    c. 93)
  19. 2 & 3 Vict.
    c. 78)
  20. 6 & 7 Will. 4
    . c. 100)
  21. 1 & 2 Vict.
    c. 96)

Local acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
7 & 8 Vict. c. xviii))
3 & 4 Vict. c. cxxxi
11 August 1840
An Act to continue for Four Years, from the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, the Duties now levied on Coal and Wines imported into the Port of London.
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008
(c. 12))
  1. 4 & 5 Will. 4
    . c. liii)
  2. 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict.
    c. cvii)
  3. 6 & 7 Will. 4
    . c. cix)
  4. 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict.
    c. xxii)
  5. 1 Geo. 4
    . c. xlii)
  6. 28 Geo. 2
    . c. 34)
  7. 6 & 7 Will. 4
    . c. xxxiv)
  8. 6 & 7 Will. 4
    . c. cxv)
  9. 1 & 2 Geo. 4
    . c. cxx)
  10. ^ George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale.
  11. 2 & 3 Vict.
    c. lxxxvi)
  12. 1 & 2 Vict.
    c. xi)
  13. 3 & 4 Will. 4
    . c. li)
  14. 57 Geo. 3
    . c. xxxi)
  15. 52 Geo. 3
    . c. xxxvii)
  16. 6 & 7 Will. 4
    . c. lxxix)
  17. 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict.
    c. cxvi)
  18. 1 & 2 Vict.
    c. lviii)
  19. 3 Geo. 4
    . c. xvii)
  20. 4 & 5 Will. 4
    . c. viii)
  21. 14 Geo. 3
    . c. 38)

Private acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
3 & 4 Vict. c. 1
23 March 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Garboldisham, in the County of Norfolk.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 2
3 April 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parishes of Freethorpe, Limpenhoe, and Reedham, in the County of Norfolk.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 3
14 April 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Township of Allerton, in the Parish of Bradford, in the West Riding Of the County of York.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 4
14 April 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Hagbourne, otherwise East Hagbourne, in the County of Berks.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 5
19 May 1840
An Act for effecting an Exchange between the Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Cambridge and Daniel Gurney, Esquire.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 6
19 May 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parishes of Whittlesea Saint Mary and Whittlesea Saint Andrew, in the County of Cambridge.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 7
19 May 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Thriplow, in the County of Cambridge.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 8
4 June 1840
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of the late Roger Forrest, the elder, to make Grants in Fee and Leases for Years at reserved Rents, of certain Parts of his Trust Estates situate in the Parish of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 9
4 June 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Township of Great Milton, in the County of Oxford.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 10
4 June 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Manor of Dronfield, in the County of Derby.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 11
4 June 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Llangerniew, in the County of Denbigh.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 12
19 June 1840
An Act to enable the Rector of Weybridge, in the County of Surrey, for the time being, to grant Building Leases of Lands in the said Parish belonging to the said Rectory.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 13
19 June 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Stoke Bruern and Hamlet of Shutlanger otherwise Shuttlehanger, in the said Parish of Stoke Bruern, in the County of Northampton.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 14
3 July 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Wicken, in the County of Cambridge.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 15
3 July 1840
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Quainton, in the County of Buckingham.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 16
3 July 1840
An Act for inclosing, dividing and allotting certain Lands in the several Parishes of Saint Harmon, Nantmel, Llanyre and Llanviltangel Helygan, in the County of Radnor.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 17
23 July 1840
An Act for enabling the Trustees of the Will of David Woodhouse, Gentleman, deceased, to sell Hereditaments thereby devised, situate in the Parishes of Crick and Ashover, in the County of Derby, and to lay out the Money arising therefrom in the Purchase of other Estates to be settled to the same Uses.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 18
23 July 1840
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Marriage Articles of Thomas Bacon, Esquire, to grant a new Lease to Richard Hill and Anthony Hill, Esquires, of an Iron Furnace and Works and Mines, Privileges and Hereditaments held therewith, called Plymouth Works, in the Parish of Merthyr Tydvil, in the County of Glamorgan.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 19
23 July 1840
An Act to discharge the Advowson of the Rectory of' Doddington, otherwise Dornington, with the Chapels of March and Renwick, from Rent-charges and Portions charged by Settlements affecting the same.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 20
23 July 1840
An Act for extending the Powers of Sale and Exchange contained in the Will of George Isaac Mowbray, Esquire, deceased, and for other Purposes.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 21
23 July 1840
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Estates of Walter Stanley, Esquire, deceased, to grant Building Leases.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 22
23 July 1840
An Act to authorize the Sale of a Mansion House purchased under the Trusts of the Will of the late John Julius Angerstein, Esquire, deceased, and to authorize Leases to be made of the same, and also of certain Lands devised by the said Will.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 23
23 July 1840
An Act to enable the Trustees of Boteler's Grammar School at Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, to effect a Sale to John Wright, Esquire, of an Estate called the Arrowe Estate, in Arrowe, in the County of Chester, and also to sell, exchange and lease certain other Estates belonging to the said School, and also for the general Management of the said School, and for other Purposes.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 24
23 July 1840
An Act to vest certain parts of the Lands and Estates comprised in the Deed of Entail executed by the deceased Alexander Hamilton, of Pencaitland, on the Thirty-first day of January One thousand seven hundred and forty-seven, now in the possession of Mary Hamilton Campbell Lady Ruthven, as Heiress of Entail thereof, in Trustees, in Trust, to sell the same and apply the Proceeds and also certain Sums arising from Sales of Parts of the said Lands, under the authority of an Act of Parliament passed to that effect, towards the Payment of the Debts affecting the Lands and Barony of Winton, also in the possession of the said Lady Ruthven as Heiress of Entail thereof, so as that the said Lands and Barony of Winton, free and disburthened of Debt may descend, along with the Estate of Pencaitland, to the same Heirs of Entail.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 25
23 July 1840
An Act for vesting certain parts of the Estates devised by the Will of Robert Shuttleworth, Esquire, deceased, in Trustees for Sale, and for authorizing Grants in Fee and Building Leases for long Terms of Years, of the Residue of the same Estates, and for other Purposes.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 26
23 July 1840
An Act to enable Richard Gravenor and John Wood, the Committees of the Estate of Robert Gravenor, a Lunatic, to make Conveyances for carrying into execution a Partition or Division of Lands and Tenements directed by a Decree of the High Court of Chancery.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 27
23 July 1840
An Act to effect a Sale of an Estate in the Parishes of Tong and Shiffnal, in the County of Salop, called Ruckley Grange, and for applying the Purchase-money in discharge of Incumbrances, and for other Purposes.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 28
23 July 1840
An Act for inclosing Swingfield Minnis, otherwise Folkestone Common, within the Manor, Hundred, Barony and Royalty of Folkestone, in the County of Kent.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 29
4 August 1840
An Act for vesting certain Parts of the Entailed Estates of Archibald Lord Douglas, of Douglas, lying in the County of Forfar, in Trustees, for the purpose of feuing the same.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 30
4 August 1840
An Act to enable the Right honourable John Savile Lumley Savile Earl of Scarborough, to grant Leases of Coal Mines, and other Mines and Minerals, and Quarries under the Estates in the County of York, comprised in or subject to the uses of an Indenture of Appointment and Release of the Twenty-eighth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and twelve, and to make Conveyances in Fee or Demises for long Terms of Years of the same Estates for building, repairing or otherwise improving the same under the Yearly Rents or other Reservations respectively, and to grant the Right and Privilege of making, laying down and using Way-leaves, Railroads or other Roads through or over any of the said Estates, under yearly or other Rents or Reservations.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 31
4 August 1840
An Act to enable William Chambers, Esquire, and others, to grant Mining, Building and other Leases of certain Estates in the Counties of Carmarthen and Glamorgan, devised by the Will of Sir John Stepney, Baronet, deceased.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 32
4 August 1840
An Act for empowering the Tenant for Life under the Will of Anthony Gregson, Esquire, deceased, and the Trustees of the same Will, to sell and exchange certain Freehold Estates, situate in the County of Northumberland and in the Town and Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and certain Tithes respectively devised by such Will, and also to grant Mining and other Leases of the said Estates, in the County of Northumberland, and of certain other Freehold Estates devised by the same Will, situate in the County Palatine of Durham, and to grant Building, Repairing and other Leases of the said Estates in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham, and Town and Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 33
4 August 1840
An Act for enabling the Revocation of a term of Ninety-nine years and the Trusts thereof, affecting the settled Estate of John Whalley, Esquire.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 34
4 August 1840
An Act for the continuance of certain Powers contained in the Settlement on the Marriage of Charles Mostyn, Esquire, now deceased, and for authorizing the Investment of the Monies to arise under the Powers of Sale and Exchange contained in such Settlement, in the Purchase of Estates in Ireland as well as in England and Wales.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 35
4 August 1840
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of the late Duke of Bridgewater to make Conveyances in Fee or Demises for long Terms of Years, of Parts of his Trust Estates in the Counties of Lancaster and Chester, for building on and improving the same, and to grant Leases of Coal and other Mines, and of Waste Lands, and also for removing Doubts as to the Right of nominating a Minister to the Church or Chapel lately erected by the Right honourable Lord Francis Egerton, on part of the said Trust Estates.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 36
10 August 1840
An Act for authorizing the Exchange of Parts of the Lands and Estates settled by the Will of the late Charles Bowyer Adderley, Esquire, and the Sale of other Parts thereof.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 37
23 March 1840
An Act for naturalizing Charles Fiers.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 38
23 March 1840
An Act for naturalizing Samuel Swain.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 39
23 March 1840
An Act for naturalizing Friedrich Ludwig Leopold Hausburg's Hausburg.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 40
23 March 1840
An Act for naturalizing August Wilhelm Bernhard Promoli.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 41
3 April 1840
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of James Perry, Esquire, with Elizabeth Margaret his Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 42
3 April 1840
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of George Lloyd, Esquire, with Athalie Pulcherie Clotilde, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 43
19 May 1840
An Act for naturalizing Frederick Schultze.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 44
19 May 1840
An Act for naturalizing Arnold Julius Wolff.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 45
4 June 1840
An Act for naturalizing Gregorio Josè Martinez del Rio.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 46
4 June 1840
An Act for naturalizing His Excellency Don Lorenzo Duke Sforza Cesarini.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 47
4 June 1840
An Act for naturalizing Alexander Liebert.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 48
3 July 1840
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Ann Battersby with Arthur Battersby, her now Husband, and to enable her to marry again, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 49
23 July 1840
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Joseph Groome Deane with Rachael his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 50
23 July 1840
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Jonathan Warr, with Betty his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 51
4 August 1840
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Alexander Grant, Esquire, with Maria Theresa his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other Purposes.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 52
4 August 1840
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of James Close, with Louisa his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 53
4 August 1840
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Edward William Trafford, Esquire, with Louisa his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q This act was not printed by the Queen's Printer

Sources

  • The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 15, Part 2. 1840 – via Google Books.
  • Journal of the House of Commons. Vol. 95. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 3–670.
  • Chronological Table of and Index to the Statutes. Vol. 1: To the End of the Session 59 Vict. Sess. 2 (1895) (13th ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1896. pp. 299–305 – via Google Books.

See also

References

  1. ^
    short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978
    .
  2. 28 & 29 Vict.
    c. 35) provides that, throughout that act, this act shall be distinguished by this short title.
  3. ^ (1907) 41 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 31
  4. 24 & 25 Vict.
    c. 28).
  5. ^ Current Law Statutes 1998, vol 3, p 87
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