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The history of English land law can be traced back to Roman times. Throughout the Early Middle Ages, where England came under rule of post-Roman chieftains and Anglo-Saxon monarchs, land was the dominant source of personal wealth. English land law transformed further from the Anglo-Saxon days, particularly during the post- Norman Invasion ...
The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state of Great Britain ...
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Feb 18, 2018 · When the Sexual Offence act came into play in 1967, there were still stipulations placed on gay mens’ freedoms. In terms of their sex acts, the rules were: The act had to be consensual. The act ...
Post 1967 there was a rapid increase in the annual number of legal abortions, and a decline in sepsis and death due to illegal abortions. In 1978 121,754 abortions were performed on women resident in the UK, and 28,015 on non-resident women.
- 1533 – The Buggery act. King Henry the VIII was the reigning monarch when the first time that parliament passed a legislation aimed at persecuting homosexual men for the act of sodomy.
- 1861 – The Offences against a person’s act. In 1861 the death penalty was abolished for acts of sodomy, instead being replaced with a minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment.
- 1885- The Criminal Law Amendment Act. In 1885 the Criminal law amendment act made any homosexual act illegal, with or without a witness present, that even acts committed in a private setting could still be prosecuted.
- 1921 – The Criminal Law Amendment Bill. Although female homosexuality was never directly targeted by any legislation, it was however discussed in parliament for the first time in 1921 with the aim to introduce discriminatory legislation (to become the Criminal Law Amendment Bill 1921).
The Abortion Act (sponsored by David Steel, MP) became law, legalising abortion under certain conditions; it came into effect on 27 April 1968. Since its passage in 1967 the Abortion Act has been unsuccessfully challenged several times by anti-choice (“pro-life”) organisations which aim to restrict access to abortion.
Jun 20, 2019 · Until 1994, rape was limited to vaginal intercourse. It was extended to anal intercourse by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, so that men as well as women could be victims of rape. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 has extended the offence to cover anal intercourse, to some extent through the petition of RCF.
