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Royal Assent.

– in the House of Commons at on 16 November 1934.

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Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.

The House went; and, having returned,

Photo of Lieut-General Edward Fitzroy Lieut-General Edward Fitzroy , Daventry

(standing in the Clerk's place at the Table): I have to acquaint the House that the House has been to the House of Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal was reading authorising the Royal Assent to—

  1. 1. Dindings Agreement (Approval) Act, 1934.
  2. 2. Incitement to Disaffection Act, 1934.
  3. 3. Expiring Laws (Continuance) Act, 1934.
  4. 4. Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934.
  5. 5. Poor Law Act, 1934.
  6. 6. Land Drainage Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1934.

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Laws are the rules by which a country is governed. Britain has a long history of law making and the laws of this country can be divided into three types:- 1) Statute Laws are the laws that have been made by Parliament. 2) Case Law is law that has been established from cases tried in the courts - the laws arise from test cases. The result of the test case creates a precedent on which future cases are judged. 3) Common Law is a part of English Law, which has not come from Parliament. It consists of rules of law which have developed from customs or judgements made in courts over hundreds of years. For example until 1861 Parliament had never passed a law saying that murder was an offence. From the earliest times courts had judged that murder was a crime so there was no need to make a law.