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Capital Punishment Act 1820

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 7 Related
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1820 c. 116,1 Geo. 4 c. 116
Year1820
Anno Regni GEORGII IV. Britanniarum Regis, Primo. An Act to repeal so much of the several Acts passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign ofPhilip and Mary , the Eighteenth of Charles the Second, the Ninth of George the First, and the Twelfth of George the Second, as inflicts Capital Punishment on certain Offences therein specified.

(1 Geo. 4) C A P. CXVI.

[25th July 1820]

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of KingPhilip and QueenMary , intituled An Act against certain Persons calling themselves Egyptians, it is amongst other things enacted, that if any of the said Persons called , which shall be transported and conveyed into this Realm ofEngland or Wales as is aforesaid, do continue and remain within the same by the Space of One Month, that then he or they so offending shall by virtue of this Act be deemed and judged a Felon and Felons, and shall therefore suffer Pains of Death, Loss of Lands and Goods, as in Cases of Felony, by the Order of the Common Law of this Realm, and shall upon the Trial of them or any of them therein so tried in the County, and by the Inhabitants of the County or Place where they or he shall be apprehended or taken, and not per Medietatem Lingoe , and shall lose the Benefit and Privilege of Sanctuary and Clergy: And Whereas by an Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of KingCharles the Second, intituled An Act to continue a former Act for Preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England, and...

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