The Cestui que vie Act 1540 (32 Hen 8 c 37) was an Act of the Parliament of England. Sections 1 to 3 were repealed by section 56 of, and Part I of Schedule 2 to, the Administration of Estates Act 1925. The words from "and the

avowry In law, avowry is where one takes a distress for rent or other thing, and the other sues replevin. In which case the taker shall justify, in his plea, for what cause he took it, and if he took it in his own right, is to show it, and so ''avow'' t ...

" to the end of the Act were repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the

Statute Law Revision Act 1948 The Statute Law Revision Act 1948 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Section 5(3) of the Statute Law Revision Act 1950 provided that this Act, so far as it repealed chapter 34 of the Statute of Westminster 1285 (13 Edw. 1 St. ...

. The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 1 of, and Part III of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969.

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Halsbury's Statutes ''Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales'' (commonly referred to as ''Halsbury's Statutes'') provides updated texts of every Public General Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Measure of the Welsh Assembly, or Church of England Measur ...

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