Pacification, England and Scotland Act 1640
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Long titleAn Act for the Pacification between England and Scotland.
Territorial extentEngland and Wales
Royal assent10 August 1641
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for the Pacification between England and Scotland. |
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| Citation | 16 Cha. 1. c. 17 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 10 August 1641 |
| Commencement | 3 November 1640[a] |
| Repealed | 28 July 1863 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Statute Law Revision Act 1863 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Pacification, England and Scotland Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c. 17) was an act of Parliament of England passed by the Long Parliament. Its full title was "An Act for the Pacification between England and Scotland".
The act declared that those who resumed fighting "ought to be punished as breakers of the peace" and that amnesty "shall not...extend to...theeves, robbers, murtherers, broaken-men [and] outlawers".[1]
The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125), which came into force on 28 July 1863.[2]