| 单词 | corporation act |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCorporation Act Corporation Act n. now historical an Act of Parliament of 1661 requiring all officers of municipal corporations to acknowledge the royal supremacy, to abjure resistance to the king, and to sign a declaration against the Solemn League and Covenant, and making ineligible for public office any person who had not taken communion according to the rites of the Church of England during the previous year.The Corporation Act, originally entitled An Act for the well Governing and Regulating of Corporations, was the first of a group of statutes known collectively as the Clarendon Code, passed in the years following the Restoration of Charles II to strengthen the position of the Church of England (cf. also Act of Uniformity, Conventicle Act (see conventicle n. 4b), Five-mile Act n.). It was repealed in 1828. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > concerning religion Bloody Statutea1648 Five-mile Act1672 Corporation Act1679 test-law1687 Bill of Toleration1692 Test Act1708 Schism Act1733 Schism Bill1733 penal codea1777 Veto Act1835 society > law > types of laws > [noun] > affecting community at large public bill1579 public act1598 Corporation Act1679 public statute1739 1679 R. Baxter Nonconformists Plea for Peace ix. 159 As in the Corporation Act, the end is the preventing of Rebellion. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi A bill repealing the Corporation Act, which had been passed by the Cavalier Parliament. 1935 Virginia Law Rev. 21 642 Almost as soon as the Corporation Act had passed, interested persons..sought to exempt the dissenters from its burden. 2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Jan. 47/2 In 1828, the year before Catholic Emancipation, the Test and Corporation Acts that excluded Dissenters from public office had been repealed. < as lemmas |
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