Statutes concerning forcible entries and riots confirmed or the Forcible Entry Act 1391 (15 Ric 2 c 2) (1391) was an Act of the

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of the

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. It provided that the

Forcible Entry Act 1381 The Forcible Entry Act 1381 (5 Ric 2 St 1 c 7) was an Act of the Parliament of the Kingdom of England. It created a statutory offence of forcible entry which superseded the common law offence. It is written in the Anglo-Norman language. The ori ...

and one or more other pieces of legislation were to be held and kept and fully executed. It also authorised any

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, who had received a complaint that such a

forcible entry Forcible entry is "the unlawful taking of possession of real property by force or threats of force or unlawful entry into or onto another's property, especially when accompanied by force". The term is also sometimes used for entry by military, pol ...

had been committed, to take the power of the county to arrest any person found committing

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after that forcible entry. The whole Chapter was repealed for

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on 1 December 1977. This Act was applied to Ireland by

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.This is asserted by the Second Schedule of the

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. This Act was repealed for the

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b
section 1
of, an

of the Schedule to, the

Statute Law Revision Act 1983 __NOTOC__ The Statute Law Revision Act 1983 (No 11) is an Act of the Oireachtas. Section 1 of the Act, with the Schedule, repeals, for the Republic of Ireland, various Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, the Parliament of England, the Parliamen ...

(which repealed the whole of the 15 Ric 2, of which this Act is part).

References

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 ...

, Third Edition, Volume 18, page 406 *The Statutes, Third Revised Edition, HMSO, 1950

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Irish Statute Book
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