Married Women’s Property Act 1870
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of money they earned and to inherit property.
Education Act 1496
Act of the Scottish Parliament to make education mandatory for the eldest sons of barons and freeholders.
Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928
Act of the UK Parliament that gave equal voting rights to men and women.
Act of Six Articles 1539
Act of Parliament introduced to curb excessive Protestant reform and to impose religious conformity.
Recusant
Redirected to Act of Uniformity 1558.
Chiltern Hundreds
Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is a procedural device allowing members of parliament to resign before a general election.
Crewe’s Act 1782
Act of Parliament to disenfranchise all government officials involved in the collection or management of statutory duties.
Frankpledge
System of joint suretyship common in England throughout the Early and High Middle Ages.
Tithing
English historic legal and administrative unit comprising the men of ten neighbouring households, held responsible for the actions for any one of its members.
Ordinance of Labourers 1349
Largely ineffective royal proclamation intended to address the acute labour shortage in the wake of the Black Death.