Pacification, England and Scotland Act 1640

Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long titleAn Act for the Pacification between England and Scotland.
Citation16 Cha. 1. c. 17
Dates
Royal assent10 August 1641
Repealed28 July 1863
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1863
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted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 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]

Notes

  1. ^ Ziv Bohrer, 'International Criminal Law's Millennium of Forgotten History', Law and History Review, May 2016, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 449–450.