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Peel's Acts

Summary

Peel's Acts (as they are commonly known) were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. They consolidated provisions from a large number of earlier statutes which were then repealed. Their purpose was to simplify the criminal law. The term refers to the Home Secretary who sponsored them, Sir Robert Peel.

Some writers apply the term Peel's Acts to the series of Acts passed between 1826 and 1832.[1] Other writers apply the term Peel's Acts specifically to five of those Acts, namely chapters 27 to 31 of the session 7 & 8 Geo 4 (1827).[2]

According to some writers, the Criminal Law Act 1826 was the first of Peel's Acts.[3]

The Acts were the product of a failed[4] attempt to codify the criminal law.

The acts 7 & 8 Geo. 4. cc. 27 to 31 edit

These acts are:

The Criminal Law (Ireland) Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 54), and the acts 9 Geo. 4. cc. 53, 55 and 56, made similar provision for Ireland.[7]

The acts replaced by the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861 edit

James Edward Davis said that the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861 are new editions of Peel's Acts.[8] The acts listed below were replaced by the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861. There were two separate sets of broadly identical Acts for England and Ireland respectively.

The first four acts on this list consolidated 316 acts, representing almost four-fifths of all offences.[citation needed]

England edit

Ireland edit

  • (Repeals) (9 Geo. 4. c. 53)
  • 9 Geo. 4. c. 55, sometimes referred to as the Larceny Act 1828[9] or the Larceny (Ireland) Act 1828[10][11]
  • 9 Geo. 4. c. 56, sometimes referred to as the Malicious Injuries to Property Act 1828 or the Malicious Injuries to Property (Ireland) Act 1828[12]

Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829
Act of Parliament
 
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Citation10 Geo. 4. c. 34
  • 10 Geo. 4. c. 34,[13] sometimes referred to as the Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829[14][15] and as the Offences Against the Person Act (Ireland) 1829[16][17]

Sources edit

  • John Frederick Archbold. Peel's Acts, and all the other Criminal Statutes passed from the First Year of the Reign of George IV to the Present Time. Third Edition. Saunders and Benning. Fleet Street, London. 1835. Volume 1.
  • John Frederick Archbold. Peel's Acts. William Benning. London. 1828. Google Books: Peel's Acts, with the Forms of Indictments, Etc., and the Evidence Necessary to Support Them Peel's Acts, with the Forms of Indictments, Etc., and the Evidence Necessary to Support Them.
  • An Alphabetical Arrangement of Mr. Peel's Acts, Lord Lansdowne's Act, &c. &c. Second Edition. J & W T Clarke. Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, London. 1830. Google Books: An Alphabetical Arrangement of Mr Peel's Acts, Lord Lansdowne's Act, &c. &c. ... and other statutes relating to the criminal law ... Second edition ... By a Barrister. [i.e. John Frederick Archbold.] An Alphabetical Arrangement of Mr. Peel's Acts, Lord Lansdowne's Act, Etc., Etc., Relating to the Better Administration of Criminal Justice, the Consolidation of Larceny; Malicious Injuries to Property; the Regulation of Remedies Against the Hundred; the Consolidation of Offenses Against the Person; and the New Acts Relating to Poaching, Smuggling, and Setting Spring Guns, Etc., and Other Statutes Relating to the Criminal Law. With Explanatory Notes, Forms of Indictments, and the Evidence in Support of Each Indictment An Alphabetical Arrangement of Mr. Peel's Acts, Lord Lansdowne's Act, Etc., Etc., Relating to the Better Administration of Criminal Justice, the Consolidation of Larceny; Malicious Injuries to Property; the Regulation of Remedies Against the Hundred; the Consolidation of Offenses Against the Person; and the New Acts Relating to Poaching, Smuggling, and Setting Spring Guns, Etc., and Other Statutes Relating to the Criminal Law. With Explanatory Notes, Forms of Indictments, and the Evidence in Support of Each Indictment.
  • An Alphabetical Arrangement of Mr. Peel's Acts. Printed for J & W T Clarke. Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, London. 1827 Google Books.
  • Isaac Espinasse. The Five Acts called Mr. Peel's Acts. London. 1827. The Five Acts Called Mr. Peel's Acts (7 and 8 Geo. IV. C. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,) Reduced to Distinct Heads, and Adapted to the Arrangement of Burn's Justice
  • George Pyne Andrewes. An Abridgement of Mr. Peel's five important Acts of Parliament just passed for the improvement of the Criminal Law. London. 1827. Catalogue.
  • The Late Acts of Parliament amending the Criminal Law of England, commonly called Peel's Acts. James Ross. Hobart Town. 1830.  Catalogue. Bibliography.
  • John Tidd Pratt. A Collection of the late Statutes, passed for the Administration of Criminal Justice in England; comprising 7 Geo. IV., Cap. 64, 7 & 8 Geo. IV., Cap. 18, 27, 28, 29, 30 & 31. Second Edition. W Benning. Fleet Street, London. 1827. Google Books.
  • The Six Acts Passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His Present Majesty for Further Improving the Administration of Criminal Justice in England. Edward Dunn and Son. Fleet Street, London. 1827. Google Books.
  • The Annual Register . . . of the Year 1827, pages 185 to 187.
  • William C M'Dermott. The Criminal Code for Ireland, as amended by the late Enactments. Printed for John Cumming. Dublin. 1829. Google Books.

Citations edit

  1. ^ James Fitzjames Stephen. A History of the Criminal Law of England. Macmillan and Co. London. 1883. Volume 2. Pages 216 and 217. Encyclopædia Britannica. Eleventh Edition. 1911. Volume 7. Page 485. "Stephen's History of the Criminal Law" (1883) 133 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 731 at 735 (No 812 June). "Art IX - The Criminal Law of England" (1864) 18 Law Magazine and Law Review 139 at 153 and [1].
  2. ^ William Robinson. An Analysis of, and Digested Index to the Criminal Statutes. Saunders and Benning. London. 1829. Page v.
  3. ^ "Preliminary Note". Halsbury's Statutes of England. (The Complete Statutes of England). First Edition. 1929. Volume 4. Page 255.
  4. ^ No Criminal Code was passed
  5. ^ Thomas James Arnold. The Law Relating to Municipal Corporations in England and Wales. Page x.
  6. ^ Evan James MacGillivray. Insurance Law relating to all Risks other than Marine. Sweet and Maxwell, Limited. Chancery Lane, London. 1912. Page xi
  7. ^ "Criminal Laws - Ireland" in "Abstract of Important Public Acts". The Companion to the Almanac, or Year-Book of General Information; for 1829. (The British Almanac). Charles Knight. London. Page 161. Thomas Stephen. The Book of the Constitution of Great Britain. Glasgow. 1835. Pages 319 and 320.
  8. ^ James Edward Davis. The Criminal Law Consolidation Statutes of the 24 & 25 of Victoria, Chapters 94 to 100. Butterworths. London. Hodges, Smith & Co. 1861. Pages vi and vii.
  9. ^ Dyson and Green. "The properties of the law". Dyson (ed). Unravelling Tort and Crime. Cambridge University Press. 2014. Chapter 14. pp 389–400.
  10. ^ Vaughan, William Edward (2009). Murder Trials in Ireland, 1836–1914. New History of Ireland (Irish Legal History Society). Vol. 19. Four Courts Press. pp. 433, 448. ISBN 9781846821585.
  11. ^ O'Connor, James; Farran, Edmond Chomley; Byrne, William; Kough, C. Norman (1911). The Irish Justice of the Peace. Dublin: E. Posonby. p. xii.
  12. ^ William Edward Vaughan. Murder Trials in Ireland, 1836–1914. pp. 384 and 448.
  13. ^ The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1225. His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers. 1829 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Turner (editor). Russell on Crime (12th ed.). Stevens. 1964. Volume I. Page cxxxiv.
  15. ^ The Irish Jurist, 1968, vol. 3, p 150
  16. ^ R v Brown [1994] 1 AC 212 at 248, (1993) 157 JP 360, HL, per Lord Lowry
  17. ^ 86 Journal of the House of Commons 165

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