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Select Documents of English Constitutional History
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The King at Twenty-Four May Repeal Acts of Parliament Passed During His Minority
(1536. 28 Henry VIII. c. 17. 3 S. R. 673.)
FORASMUCH as laws and statutes may happen hereafter to be made within this realm at parliaments held at such times as the kings of the same shall happen to be within age, having small knowledge and experience of their affairs, to the great hindrance and derogation of the imperial crown of this realm, and to the universal damage of the common wealth of the subjects of the same: be it therefore enacted by authority of this present parliament, that if the imperial crown of this realm, after the decease of the king’s most royal majesty, whose life our Lord long preserve, descend, come or remain to the heirs of our said sovereign lord or to any person to be limited by his highness, as of very right it must and ought to do according to the laws of this realm established for the same, the said heirs or such person being within the age of twenty-four years, and that then any act or acts of parliament shall happen to be made and established, in any parliament that then shall be held before such heir or heirs, person or persons then being in possession of the said crown shall be of their full ages of twenty-four years, that then every such heir or heirs of our said sovereign lord, or such persons so possessed of the crown and being within the same age of twenty-four years, shall have full power and authority at all times, after they shall come to their said full ages of twenty-four years, by their letters patent under the great seal of England, to revoke, annul and repeal all and singular such acts made and established by their royal assents, in any parliament held during the time that they were within their said age of twenty-four years; their royal assents had to the same during the time that they were within the said age of twenty-four years or any act or acts hereafter to be made to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
II. And be it also enacted by authority aforesaid that every such repeal, annullation and revocation of any act or acts, that shall be made and established in any parliament held before the time that such heirs or person possessed of the crown shall be of the said age of twenty-four years, shall be as good and effectual to all intents and purposes as though it had been done by authority of parliament.
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Chicago: "The King at Twenty-Four May Repeal Acts of Parliament Passed During His Minority," Select Documents of English Constitutional History in Select Documents of English Constitutional History, ed. George Burton Adams (1851-1925) and Henry Morse Stephens (1857-1918) (New York: Macmillan Company, 1916), Original Sources, accessed December 11, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8EJELQS7LZLPELS.
MLA: . "The King at Twenty-Four May Repeal Acts of Parliament Passed During His Minority." Select Documents of English Constitutional History, in Select Documents of English Constitutional History, edited by George Burton Adams (1851-1925) and Henry Morse Stephens (1857-1918), New York, Macmillan Company, 1916, Original Sources. 11 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8EJELQS7LZLPELS.
Harvard: , 'The King at Twenty-Four May Repeal Acts of Parliament Passed During His Minority' in Select Documents of English Constitutional History. cited in 1916, Select Documents of English Constitutional History, ed. , Macmillan Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 11 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8EJELQS7LZLPELS.
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