Parliamentary Privilege Act 1737
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1737 c. 24 |
(11 Geo. 2) C A P. XXIV.
'WHEREAS for the preventing all Delays the King or his Subjects may receive in any of his Courts of Law or Equity, and for their Ease in the Recovery of their Rights and Titles to any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and their Debts, or other Dues, for which they have Cause of Suit or Action, an Act was made in the twelfth and thirteenth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled,An Act for preventing any Inconveniencies that may happen by Privilege of Parliament ; whereby nevertheless the Privilege of Parliaments is restrained only in Actions or Suits commenced or prosecuted in the Courts, and for the Causes, therein particularly mentioned: And whereas great Inconveniencies may happen to his Majesty, and his Subjects, with respect to their Rights and Titles of Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, and their Debts, or other Dues, for which they have Cause of Suit or Action, if the Privilege of Parliament be not restrained upon Actions or Suits commenced or prosecuted in other Courts within Great Britain and Ireland ;' For Remedy thereof, be it 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 from andafter the first Day ofJune one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight, any Person and Persons shall and may commence and prosecute in Great Britain or Ireland any Action or Suit in any Court of Record, or Court of Equity, or of Admiralty, and in all Causes Matrimonial and Testamentary, in any Court having Cognizance of Causes Matrimonial and Testamentary, against any Peer or Lord of Parliament of Great Britain , or against any of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons of Great Britain for the time being, or against their or any of their menial or other Servants, or any other Person intitled to the Privilege of the Parliament of Great Britain , at any Time from and immediately after the Dissolution or Prorogation of any Parliament, until a new Parliament shall meet, or the same be reassembled, and from and immediately after any Adjournment of both Houses of Parliament for above the Space of fourteen Days...
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