Events Tagged: "statute"

First Statute of Westminster - comprehensive legal reforms including protection of church property and regulation of wardship

Statute of Laborers - attempt to freeze wages at pre-plague levels, maximum wage law fails

Barcelona creates first comprehensive bankruptcy statute - distinguishing honest from fraudulent bankruptcy, allowing composition with creditors

Statute of Uses enacted - attempts to execute uses and restore feudal incidents, but creates unintended consequences leading to modern trust

First English bankruptcy statute under Henry VIII - only applies to traders, allows commissioners to seize and sell assets, no discharge

Statute of Monopolies - patents limited to new inventions for 14 years, foundation of modern patent law