Status of Children Born Abroad Act 1350
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1350 c. 25 |
| Year | 1350 |
(25 Edw. 3 St. 1)
‘O U R Lord the King, at his Parliament holden atWestminster , at the Utas of the Purification of our Lady, the Year of his Reign of England the Five and twentieth, and of France the Twelfth considering the great Mischiefs and Damages which have happened to the People of his Realm of England , as well because that the Statutes ordained before this Time have not been holden and kept as they ought to be, as because of the mortal Pestilence that late reigned, and willing to provide for the Quietness and common Profit of his said People convenient Remedy;’ 'therefore by the Assent of the Prelates Earls, Barons, and other great Men, and all the Commons of his said Realm summoned to the Parliament, hath ordained and established the Things under-written, videlicet , (2) Because that some People be in Doubt if the Children born in the Parts beyond the Sea, out of the Ligeance of England , should be able to demand any Inheritance within the same Ligeance, or not, whereof a Petition was put in the Parliament late holden at Westminster , the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of our Lord the King that now is, and was not at the same Time wholly assented; (3) our Lord the King, willing that all Doubts and Ambiguities should be put away, and the Law in this Case declared and put in a Certainty, hath charged the said Prelates, Earls, Barons, and other wise Men of his Council, assembled in this Parliament, to deliberate upon this Point; all which of one Assenthave said, That the Law of the Crown ofEngland is, and always hath been such, that the Children of the Kings of England , in whatsoever Parts they be born, in England or elsewhere, be able and ought to bear the Inheritance after the Death of their Ancestors; which Law our said Lord the King, the said Prelates, Earls, Barons, and other great Men, and all the Commons assembled in this Parliament, do approve and affirm for ever. (4) Andin the Right of other Children born out of the Ligeance ofEngland in the Time of our Lord the King, they be of one Mind accorded, that Henry Son of John de Beaumond, Elizabeth Daughter of Guy de Bryan , and Giles Son of Ralph Dawbeny , and other which the King will name, which were born beyond the Sea, out of the Ligeance of England , shall be from...
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