Read full poem →An act of parliament passed in the year 1737, which
forbad the representation of any performance not pre-
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A law which has received assent (royal or presidential or gubernatorial) after having been passed by the houses (or house) of Parliament.
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Poetry examples for “act of parliament”
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Read full poem →By a Scottish act of parliament, it was enacted, that no ship should
be fraughted out of the kingdom, with any staple goods, betwixt