User:John Cross/legal texts

I especially want to see laws made freely available, if ignorance is no defence then then the law really does need to be easy to find. I live in the UK where laws are only become pubic domain 50 years after they are passed. This page contains links to some of the legal and constitutional documents I have worked on.

United Kingdom - Acts of the United Kingdom Pariament
I have contributed complete texts for the following Acts of the UK Parliament:


 * Accession Declaration Act 1910
 * Acts of Parliament (Expiration) Act 1808
 * Apportionment Act 1870
 * Bills of Exchange (Time of Noting) Act 1917
 * Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919
 * Clerk of the Council Act 1859
 * Copyright Act 1709
 * Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925
 * Hotel Proprietors Act 1956
 * Indian Independence Act 1947
 * Ireland Act 1949 (Text uploaded to Commons)
 * Japanese Treaty of Peace Act 1951
 * Judicial Committee Act 1915
 * Libel Act 1792
 * Life Peerages Act 1958
 * Marshall Aid Commemoration Act 1953
 * Meeting of Parliament Act 1870
 * Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918
 * Parliament Act 1949
 * Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711
 * Privy Council Registrar Act 1853
 * Royal Titles Act 1953
 * Septennial Act 1715
 * Statutory Companies (Redeemable Stock) Act 1915
 * Witnesses Act 1806

I have also created this template: UK-SLD

United Kingdom - Acts of the English Pariament

 * Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701
 * Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689
 * Crown Proceedings Act 1600
 * Fines of Labourers, Subsidy Act 1351
 * Restraint of Subinfeudation Act 1290
 * Unlawful Jurisdictions Act 1584

United Kingdom - Acts of the Scottish Parliament (pre-union)

 * Coronation Oath Act 1567
 * Papal Jurisdiction Act 1560
 * Royal Mines Act 1424
 * Sovereignty Act 1606‎

United Kingdom - Acts of the Old Irish Parliament

 * Crown Recognition Act (Ireland) 1692

United Kingdom - Legal Cases
I have contributed the following UK legal cases:


 * Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
 * Re Kingston Cotton Mill Company (No.2) (1896)
 * The Trusts of The Arthur Mcdougall Fund Thompson and Others v. Fitzgerald and Another

United Kingdom - Royal Charters

 * Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

United Kingdom - Other Legal Texts

 * The Oath of a Privy Councillor

United Kingdom - Author pages

 * Portal:Parliament of England
 * Portal:Parliament of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom - Useful links for contributors

 * British History online
 * British and Irish Legal Information Institute - British and Irish Public Legal Information
 * National Archives
 * Registry Trust Limited a not for profit company which operates the Registry of Judgments, Orders and Fines for England and Wales on behalf of the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
 * Records of the Parliament of Scotland
 * Statute Law Database from the Department of Justice

International - Useful links for contributors

 * Spellcheck.net - useful to check spelling

International - Treaties

 * Locarno Pact

International - Templates

 * League of Nations Template

To do list - texts

 * Austrian State Treaty Act 1955
 * Justices Protection Act 1803


 * Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act 1915
 * Partnerhip Act 1890
 * Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation Act 1950
 * Treaties of Peace (Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland) Act 1947
 * United Parishes (Scotland) Act 1876

To do list - projects
Anglo Saxon Treaties:


 * Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum

English Peace Treaties:


 * Treaty of Breda (1667)
 * Treaty of Durham (1136)
 * Treaty of Durham (1139)
 * Peace of Etaples
 * Treaty of Falaise
 * Treaty of Lambeth
 * Treaty of London (1359)
 * Treaty of London (1604)
 * Treaty of Perpetual Peace (1502)
 * Treaty of Picquigny
 * Treaty of Ripon
 * Treaty of Troyes
 * Treaty of Utrecht (1474)
 * Treaty of Westminster (1674)