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The Irish House of Lords: A Court Of Law In The Eighteenth Century


ISBN13: 9781905536566
Published: July 2013
Publisher: Clarus Press
Country of Publication: Ireland
Format: Hardback
Price: £50.00



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The Irish House of Lords: A Court Of Law In The Eighteenth Century is a unique work which examines the role of this final court of appeal between the years 1783 ‘til the Act of Union in 1800 placing the Court in the context of the political and constitutional history of the time. Utilising a broad range of sources, including recent and relevant academic studies as well as rare law reports and archives this booktraces, in great detail, the importance of particular decisions of the Irish lords and what they tell us about penal laws and other phenomena of Irish life at that time.

This comparative analysis of decisions of the Irish and British lords, in the context of disagreements and disputes about jurisdiction between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain, builds on our current understanding of the issues involved and brings to it the fresh perspective of a scholar who understands the subtleties of particular legal decisions as well as their broader political reception. The author also examines the judges of the court, their individual contributions and judicial attitudes. This insight to the personalities and lives of some of the leading judges and others who were involved in key decisions in the eighteenth century brings an added dimension that many readers will find attractive and that supplements our existing knowledge of those individuals.

Some of the material discussed is relevant to a wider constitutional debate, one that stretches across the Atlantic Ocean to encompass the American colonies and that deals with the ostensible supremacy of the English King or parliament in the eighteenth century. The ownership of land, the interests of Irish families and the exploration of substantive legal issues in respect to ‘leases for lives renewable forever’ raises issues that might otherwise be overlooked by historians, not least in respect to leases for lives and the Penal laws. The book concludes with a chapter dedicated to the criminal jurisdiction of the Irish House of Lords dealing as it does with trials such as that of Lord Barry of Santry, as well as that of the Earl of Kingston.

Just before the Union with Great Britain in 1801 when the Irish parliament ceased to exist, the jurisdiction of the Irish court of Exchequer Chamber was expanded, which presaged a similar development in England in 1830 which does not seem to have been noted elsewhere.

Subjects:
Irish Law, Legal History
Contents:
1. An Irish House
2. The Constitutional Position
3. Loss and Recovery
4. Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts
5. Writs of Error and Appeals
6. Procedure in the Lords
7. Biographical Details
8. The Later History of Exchequer Chamber
9. Substantive Law
10. Criminal Jurisdiction
11. Conclusion

Appendices
A: Statutes, Parliament of Drogheda 1460
B: Poynings’ Law 1495 (English Statutes)
C: Poynings’ Law 1495 (Parliaments)
D: Amendment of Poynings’ Law (Parliaments) 1556
E: Precedents Extracted from the Records of Ireland
F: The Jacobite Declaratory Act 1689
G: Order of English House of Lords, 24 May 1698
H: Reasons of William Molyneux
I: Declaratory Act 1720
J: Notes on Lord Netterville’s Trial
K: Tenure of Judges Bill 1776
L: Attorney General’s Report on the Tenantry Bill
M: Amendments to the Tenantry Bill 1780
N: The Repealing Act 1782
O: Yelverton’s Act 1782
P: Appeals and Writs of Error to Parliament 1782
Q: The Renunciation Act1783
R: Irish Court of Exchequer Chamber 1800