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 Statutes only as were of prior date; which effect is confirmed also by a resolution of the Judges in the 10th of James, cited by Lord Coke in the same page (22); and he has likewise dated the true effect of that Act in his 1st Institute, 141 b. Viz.

“By an Act of Parliament (called Poining’s Law) holden in Ireland” (says he) “in the 10th yeare of Henry the 7th, it is enacted, That all Statutes, made in this Realme of England BEFORE THAT TIME, should be