The Punishment of Burning in the Hand Act 1799 (39 Geo. 3. c. 45) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.[1] It continued and made perpetual an Act from 20 years earlier, the Transportation, etc. Act 1779, that provided for such punishment for felons who were convicted within benefit of clergy.
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| Long title | An Act for making perpetual so much of an Act made in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-four, videlicet, on the twenty-sixth Day of November on thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend the Laws relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, and other Punishment of certain Offenders," as relates to the Punishment of burning in the Hand of certain Persons convicted of Felony with the Benefit of Clergy. |
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| Citation | 39 Geo. 3. c. 45 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 20 May 1799 |
| Repealed | 6 August 1861 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amends | Transportation, etc. Act 1779 |
| Repealed by | Statute Law Revision Act 1861 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
References
edit- ^ Mark Baskett, and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, and by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan (1800). The Statutes at Large: From Magna Carta, to the End of the Last Parliament. p. 112.
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