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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1878

List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1878

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This is a list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in the calendar year 1878 and the session 41 & 42 Vict.

The session 41 & 42 Vict was the fifth session of the twenty-first Parliament of the United Kingdom.[1] Sources published during the regnal year 41 Vict refer to this session as 41 Vict,[2] because, at that time, it was not known when the session would end.[3]

During the year 1878 and the session 41 & 42 Vict, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed 79 public general acts; 32 public acts of a local character, which were placed amongst the local and personal acts;[4] 238 local acts; and 7 private acts printed by the Queen's Printer.[5][6]

The number shown after each act's short title or popular title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held.

Most of these acts have a short title. Some of these acts have never had a short title. Some of these acts have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896.

Public general acts

Local acts

Chapters i to c

  • Linen and Yarn Halls (Dublin) Act 1878[12] c. i
  • Brighton Aquarium (Capital) Act 1878[9] c. ii
  • Royal Bank of Scotland Officers Widows Fund (Amendment) Act 1878[9] c. iii
  • Aspinwall's Patent Act 1878[16] c. iv
  • Birkenhead, Chester, and North Wales Railway (Abandonment) Act 1878[9] c. v
  • Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Railway (Abandonment) Act 1878[9] c. vi
  • Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wadebridge Junction Railway (Abandonment) Act 1878[9] c. vii
  • Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Bristol, &c.) Act 1878[7] c. viii
  • Hartlepool Gas and Water Act 1878[9] c. ix
  • Brading Harbour District Gas Act 1878[9] c. x
  • Deal Water Act 1878[9] c. xi
  • Serle Street and Cook's Court Improvement Act 1878[9] c. xii
  • Swindon, Marlborough, and Andover Railway Act 1878[9] c. xiii
  • Sevenoaks Waterworks Act 1878[9] c. xiv
  • Bala and Festiniog Railway Act 1878[9] c. xv
  • Dublin Corporation Waterworks Acts Amendment Act 1878[9] c. xvi
  • Imperial Continental Gas Association Act 1878[9] c. xvii
  • Farnworth and Kearsley Gas Act 1878[9] c. xviii
  • Exeter Chapel of St. John's Hospital Act 1878[9] c. xix
  • Newent Railway Act 1878[9] c. xx
  • Ross and Ledbury Railway Act 1878[9] c. xxi
  • London and Saint Katharine Docks Act 1878[9] c. xxii
  • Legal and General Life Assurance Society's Act 1878[9] c. xxiii
  • Charnwood Forest Railway Act 1878[9] c. xxiv
  • Somerset and Dorset Railway (Nettlebridge Branch Railway Abandonment) Act 1878[9] c. xxv
  • Torquay Gas Act 1878[9] c. xxvi
  • Batley Corporation Waterworks Act 1878[9] c. xxvii
  • Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway Act 1878[9] c. xxviii
  • Saint James's Gate Brewery (Dublin) Tramways Act 1878[9] c. xxix
  • Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Act 1878[9] c. xxx
  • West Lancashire Railway (Steam Vessels) Act 1878[9] c. xxxi
  • Wiggenhall Saint Mary Magdalen Drainage Act 1878[9] c. xxxii
  • Cannock Chase Railway (Extension) Amendment Act 1878[9] c. xxxiii
  • Shrewsbury Gas Act 1878[9] c. xxxiv
  • Cleveland Mineral Railway Act 1878[9] c. xxxv
  • East Norfolk Railway Act 1878[9] c. xxxvi
  • Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Abingdon, &c.) Act 1878[10] c. xxxvii
  • Drainage and Improvement of Lands Supplemental Act (Ireland) 1878[7] c. xxxviii
  • Borrowstounness Town and Harbour (Amendment) Act 1878[7] c. xxxix
  • Yarmouth and North Norfolk (Light) Railway Act 1878[9] c. xl
  • Marske and Saltburn Gas Act 1878[9] c. xli
  • Birmingham Closed Burial Grounds Act 1878[9] c. xlii
  • York United Gaslight Company's Act 1878[9] c. xliii
  • Truro Water (Extension of Time) Act 1878[9] c. xliv
  • Nottingham Waterworks Act 1878[9] c. xlv
  • Pegwell Bay Reclamation and Sandwich Haven Improvement Act 1878[9] c. xlvi
  • Clyde Navigation Act 1878[9] c. xlvii
  • Lewes Gas Act 1878[9] c. xlviii
  • Lea Bridge District Gas Act 1878[9] c. xlix
  • Scarborough Waterworks Amendment Act 1878[9] c. l
  • Pacific Steam Navigation Company Act 1878[9] c. li
  • Preston Tramways Act 1878[9] c. lii
  • Scottish Union and National Insurance Company's Act 1878[9] c. liii
  • Hull Street Tramways Act 1878[9] c. liv
  • Manchester Division and Borough of Salford (Stipendiary Justices) Act 1878[9] c. lv
  • Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Act 1878[9] c. lvi
  • Local Government Board's (Gas) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Droitwich, &c.) Act, 1878[7] c. lvii
  • Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (Mickleover) Act 1878[7] c. lvii
  • Bristol Port and Channel Dock Act 1878[9] c. lix
  • Glasgow Public Parks Act 1878[9] c. lx
  • Burton-upon-Trent Improvement Act 1878[9] c. lxi
  • Westhoughton Local Board Act 1878[9] c. lxii
  • Dalton-in-Furness District Local Board Act 1878[9] c. lxiii
  • Forth Bridge Railway Act 1878[9] c. lxiv
  • Liverpool Improvement Act 1878[9] c. lxv
  • South Hants Water Act 1878[9] c. lxvi
  • Tredegar Water and Gas Act 1878[9] c. lxvii
  • Conway Bridge Act 1878[9] c. lxviii
  • Govan Burgh Act 1878[9] c. lxix
  • Alloa Harbour Act 1878[9] c. lxx
  • Newhaven Harbour Improvement Act 1878[9] c. lxxi
  • London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Croydon, Oxted, and East Grinstead Railways) Act 1878[9] c. lxxii
  • Cockermouth and Workington Water Act 1878[9] c. lxxiii
  • London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Various Powers) Act 1878[9] c. lxxiv
  • Scarborough Corporation Water Act 1878[9] c. lxxv
  • East Grinstead Gas and Water Act 1878[9] c. lxxvi
  • Rhondda Valley and Hirwain Junction Railway Act 1878[9] c. lxxvii
  • Hemel Hempsted District Gas Act 1878[9] c. lxxviii
  • Glasgow Municipal Buildings Act 1878[9] c. lxxix
  • Bedlingtonshire Local Board (Water) Act 1878[9] c. lxxx
  • South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Act 1878[9] c. lxxxi
  • Blackpool Pier Act 1878[9] c. lxxxii
  • Llanelly Harbour Act 1878[9] c. lxxxiii
  • Clitheroe Corporation Act 1878[9] c. lxxxiv
  • Nettlebridge Valley Railway (Abandonment) Act 1878[9] c. lxxxv
  • Tees Conservancy Act 1878[9] c. lxxxvi
  • Market Deeping Railway Act 1878[9] c. lxxxvii
  • Sleaford Navigation (Abandonment) Act 1878[9] c. lxxxviii
  • Rhins of Galloway Railway Act 1878[9] c. lxxxix
  • Great Eastern Railway (Northern Extension) Act 1878[9] c. xc
  • Nottingham Improvement Act 1878[9] c. xci
  • Southport Waterworks Act 1878[9] c. xcii
  • Merrybent and Darlington Railway Company (Winding Up) Act 1878[9] c. xciii
  • Dundee Street Tramways, Turnpike Roads, and Police Act 1878[9] c. xciv
  • London and North-western and Furness Railway Companies (Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Vesting) Act 1878[9] c. xcv
  • Midland Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1878[9] c. xcvi
  • Wigan Junction Railways Act 1878[9] c. xcvii
  • Great Northern Railway (Spalding to Lincoln) Act 1878[9] c. xcviii
  • Staines and West Drayton Railway Act 1878[9] c. xcix
  • Glasgow Municipal Act 1878[9] c. c

Chapters ci to cc

Chapters cci to ccxxv

Private acts

  • Lord Exeter's Estate Act 1878[9] c. 1
  • Brooks' Settled Estates Partition Confirmation Act 1878[9] c. 2
  • Cooke Estate Act 1878[9] c. 3
  • Marquis of Stafford's Estate Act 1878[23] c. 4
  • Lord Tredegar's Supplemental Estate Act 1878[9] c. 5
  • Traherne's Estate Act 1878[9] c. 6
  • Vane Tempest Settled Estate Act 1878[9] c. 7

Tables and indexes

There are tables of the statutes of this year and session; indexes to the statutes of this year and session; and tables of the effect of the legislation of this year and session.

See also

References

Statutes in force are included in Chitty's Statutes and Halsbury's Statutes, and in the Statutes Revised and Statutes in Force; they are discussed in Halsbury's Laws of England and the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia.

  • Chronological Table of the Statutes. 2009. Part 1. Pages 503 to 506.
  • Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes, 13th Ed, 1896, vol 1, pp 490 to 495.
  • Paterson (ed). The Practical Statutes of the Session 1878. Printed by Horace Cox. 1878. Google
  • The Law Reports: The Public General Statutes, passed in . . . 1878. Printed for William Clowes and Sons, printers to the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. 1878. Volume 13: .
  • The Public General Statutes. 1878.
  • The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: passed in the Forty-First and Forty-Second Years of  . . . Victoria. Edward Bret Ince for the proprietors of the Law Journal Reports. 1878.
  • The Public General Acts. 1878.
  • The Local Acts passed in the Forty-First and Forty-Second Years of  . . . Victoria. 1878. Front matter and chapters i to lxxx: Google. Chapters lxxxi to cxxxvi: Google. Chapters cxxxvii to clxxxiii: Google. Chapters clxxxiv to ccxxxviii: Google.
  • The Local Acts. 1878. (Including Acts printed by Nichols and Sons). Google
  • The Public General Statutes affecting Scotland, passed in the Forty-First and Forty-Second Years of  . . . Victoria. Printed by authority of William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh. 1878. Google
  • "Readings of New Statutes" in "Magistrates' Law" (1878) 65 The Law Times 29
  • (1878) 65 The Law Times 115, 280, 290, 304, 309, 337, 347, 359, 370, 373, 390, 404 and 412
  • "Legislation and Jurisprudence" (1878) 65 The Law Times 6, 25, 46, 65, 82, 100, 119, 138, 157, 192, 211, 229, 247, 263 and 281
  • The Law Times. Statutes of the United Kingdom. 41 & 42 Vict, A D 1878.
  • "New Statutes" (1878) 13 The Law Journal 654 (26 October 1878)
  • "Law in Parliament" (1878) 13 The Law Journal 310 and 784
  • "Parliamentary Work" (1878) 13 The Law Journal 369 (15 June 1878)
  • "Parliamentary Progress" (1878) 13 The Law Journal 264 (27 April 1878)
  • "Bills of Private Members" (1878) 13 The Law Journal 71
  • "Law Reform and the Session of 1878" (1878) 13 The Law Journal 549 (7 September 1878)
  • (1878) 13 The Law Journal 205, 207, 323, 453, 625, 669, 708, 709, 729 and 789
  • "Legislation of the Year" (1878) 22 The Solicitors' Journal 901, 913, 937 and 950
  • "Legislation of the Week" (1878) 22 The Solicitors' Journal 227, 250, 267, 285, 312, 338, 357, 377, 397, 417, 437, 455, 477, 497, 550, 566, 570, 588, 610, 630, 647, 664, 668, 708, 730, 750, 769, 787, 809, 829 and 846
  • (1878) 22 The Solicitors' Journal 513 and 844
  • The Solicitors Journal. The Public General Statutes: 41 & 42 Victoriae, 1878.
  • "Statutes of the past Session" (1878) 42 The Justice of the Peace 561 and 577
  • "Statutes 41 Vict" (1878) 42 The Justice of the Peace 345, 362, 376, 394, 425, 441, 458 and 474
  • "Statutes 41 & 42 Vict" (1878) 42 The Justice of the Peace 522, 538, 552, 570, 601, 617, 649, 664 and 680
  • "Legislative Intelligence" (1878) 42 The Justice of the Peace 47, 57, 63, 72, 79, 89, 95, 105, 111, 123, 127, 138, 143, 153, 159, 168, 175, 185, 191, 202, 207, 217, 223, 233, 239, 248, 297, 303, 313, 319, 329, 335, 345, 351, 362, 367, 376, 383, 393, 399, 408, 415, 425, 431, 441, 447, 457, 463, 473, 479, 488, 495, 505, 511, 521, 527, 537 and 543
  • (1878) 42 The Justice of the Peace 385, 674, 770, 786 and 803
  • "Statutes affecting Scotland, 1878" (1878) 22 The Journal of Jurisprudence 593 to 596
  • "Legislation of the Session" (1878) 12 Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 406 (3 August 1878)
  • The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal. Public General Statutes, 41° & 42° Victoriae (1878).
  • "Students' Statutes" (1878) 1 The Law Students' Journal 3 and 4. Reprinted at 71 to 73.
  • John F Haynes. The Students' Statutes for 1878. Printed by Horace Cox. London. 1878.
  • "The Private Bill Legislation for the Ensuing Session" (1878) 36 The Builder 20
  • "Private Bills for Session 1878" (1877 and 1878) 24 Engineering 439 and 476
  • "General List of Private Bills, Session, 1878" (1878) 45 The Engineer 95; "Private Bills - Session 1878" at pp 118, 135, 151 and 187.
  • "Parliamentary Campaign" (1877) 40 The Railway Times 1082 (8 December 1877); 41 The Railway Times 714
  • 9 The British Architect and Northern Engineer 11 (4 January 1878)
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    The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Edward Bret Ince, 1878, title page
  2. [2]
    See, for example, Linen and Yarn Halls (Dublin) Act 1878, printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1878, pp 1 to 3
  3. [3]
    O Hood Phillips. A First Book of English Law. Fourth Edition. Sweet and Maxwell. 1960. p 99.
  4. [4]
    The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Edward Bret Ince, 1878, pp 509 to 511
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    The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Edward Bret Ince, 1878, p 522
  6. [6]
    "Table of the Statutes". The Public General Acts. 1878. pp 3 to 32.
  7. [7]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 2 of this Act.
  8. [8]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 12 of this Act.
  9. [9]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 1 of this Act.
  10. [10]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 3 of this Act.
  11. [11]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 6 of this Act.
  12. [12]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 5 of this Act.
  13. [13]
    Current Law Statutes 1996, vol 4, p 56
  14. [14]
    The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  15. [15]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 1(1) of this Act.
  16. [16]
    This expression is included in the page header of printed copies of Aspinwall's Patent Act 1878, and the Act was cited by this expression: 133 Journals of the House of Commons 494. See 22 The Solicitors' Journal 455; Johnson, Parliament, Inventions and Patents and Privatised Law Reform.
  17. [17]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 11 of this Act.
  18. [18]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 7 of this Act.
  19. [19]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 4 of this Act.
  20. [20]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 10 of this Act.
  21. [21]
    This short title was conferred on this Act by section 54 of this Act.
  22. [22]
    Sic
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    Eileen Spring, "Landowners, Lawyers, and Land Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century England" (1977) 21 American Journal of Legal History 40 (No 1, January) JSTOR HeinOnline. The Bill for this Act was Lord Stafford's Estate Bill: 133 Journals of the House of Commons 336, 341, 384 and 376. "Stafford's Estate Bill": 13 The Law Journal 264; and 22 The Solicitors' Journal 513.
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