| 单词 | Poynings' Law |
| 释义 | ˈPoynings' Law
Also (incorrectly) Poyning's Law.
[f. the name of Sir Edward Poynings (1459–1521), Lord Deputy in Ireland, 1494–6.]
The name given to a series of statutes, passed at Drogheda in 1494–5 and repealed in 1782, by which the Irish parliament was subordinated to the English Crown.
[1612–13in Coke Fourth Part Institutes (1644) lxxvi. 351 An Act made in the tenth year of H.7 called Poynings Act.] 1622Bacon Henry VII 138 But Poynings (the better to make compensation of the Meagernesse of his Seruice in the Warres, by Acts of Peace) called a Parliament; where was made that memorable Act, which at this day is called Poynings Law, whereby all the Statutes of England were made to bee of force in Ireland. 1656Blount Glossogr., Poynings Law is an Act of Parliament made in Ireland, 10 Hen. 7, and was so called, because Sir Edw. Poynings was Lieutenant of Ireland, when that Law was made; whereby all the Statutes of England were made of force in Ireland [etc.]. 1797Encycl. Brit. IX. 327/2 During his administration was enacted the law known by the name of Poyning's Law. 1827H. Hallam Const. Hist. Eng. II. xviii. 719 This produced the famous statute of Drogheda in 1495, known by the name of Poyning's law. 1938D. L. Keir Const. Hist. Mod. Brit. vii. 434 By Poyning's Law, in 1495, the Irish Parliament itself made applicable to Ireland all statutes lately made in England, and acknowledged the right of the King to be informed of the causes for its summons and to approve, in his Council, all bills to be introduced when it met. 1973B. Bradshaw in B. Farrell Irish Parliamentary Tradition v. 69 Essentially Poynings' Law provided that a parliament could not be validly held in Ireland without the consent of the king..both to the convening of parliament and to the projected legislation. |
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