| 单词 | act of indemnity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAct (or Bill) of Indemnity b. Act (or Bill) of Indemnity, an act of Parliament or other authority granting exemption from the penalties attaching to any unconstitutional or illegal proceeding. Also figurative.Such an act used, previously to the general act of 31 & 32 Vict., c. 72 §16, to be passed annually for the relief of those who had failed to take the necessary oaths of office. In English History the term is specifically applied to the Acts of 1660 and 1690, exempting those who had taken arms or acted against Charles II and William III respectively, from the penal consequences of their former deeds. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative Ragmanc1400 Statute of Sewers1571 Poynings' Act1613 Poynings' Law1622 Statute of Limitations1641 Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647 new tables1664 Habeas Corpus Act1705 Judicature Act1782 continuance act1863 stay-law1880 ripper1885 reception statute1931 thirty-year rule1966 sunshine law1968 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times ii. xiv. 84 So shall I have an Act of indempnity before he can enter his action against mee. 1648 D. Jenkins Wks. 79 The Army by an Act of Indemnity free themselves from all those dangers, which an Ordinance can no more do then repeale all the Lawes of the Land. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 94 He therefore carried the Act of Oblivion and Indempnity thorow. 1797 E. Burke Remarks Policy Allies in Three Memorials on French Affairs 186 A valuable friend..asked me what I thought of acts of general indemnity and oblivion, as a means of settling France. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 459 They retained the bill of indemnity in the commons. 1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 14 The Act of Indemnity, and the trial of the regicides, transpired before the commencement of the correspondence. < as lemmas |
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