Corporations Act 1718
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1718 c. 6 |
| Year | 1718 |
(5 Geo. 1) C A P. VI. Anno Regni GEORGII Regis Magn Britanni, Franci &Hiberni, quarto.
An Act for quieting and establishing Corporations.
I Car. 2. st. 2. c. 1.
'I. WH E R E A S by an Act made in the thirteenth Year of KingCharles the Second, intituled, An Act for the well-governing and regulating of Corporations , it is, amongst other Things enacted, That every Person or Persons, who from and after the Expiration of the Commissions of in the said Act mentioned, should be placed, elected or chosen, in or to any the Offices or Places of Mayors, Recorders, Bailiffs, Town-clerks, Common Council-men, or to any Office or Offices of Magistracy, or Places or Trusts, or other Imployment relating to or concerning the Government of Cities, Corporations and Boroughs, and Cinque-ports and their Members, and other Port-towns, should at the same Time when the Oath for the due Execution of the said Places and Offices respectively should be administred, take the following Oath,viz.
IA. B.do declare and believe, That it is not lawful, upon any Pretence whatsoever, to take Arms against the King: and that I do abhor that traiterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person, or against those that are commissioned by him .
So help me God.
And subscribe the following Declaration,viz.
IA. B.do declare, That I hold that there lies no Obligation upon me, or any other Person, from the Oath commonly called , The Solemn League and Covenant; and that the same was in itself an unlawful Oath, and imposed upon the Subject of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom .
'And that in Default thereof every such Placing, Election and Choice should be void: And whereas the taking the said Oath, and subscribing the said Declaration, have for several Years last past been generally omitted, and Questions have of late arisen, Whether the said Statute made in the said thirteenth Year of King the Second, as to the said Oath and Declaration, be yet in Force:' Therefore for avoiding of all such Questions for the future, and for the establishing the Peace and Quiet of Corporations, Beit declared and enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and every Member and Members of any Corporation within this Kingdom, and all and every Person and...
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