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    this article: An act of free and general pardon, indemnity and oblivion The Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660 was an Act of the Parliament of England (12 Cha...
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  • In legal terms, an Act of Indemnity is a statute passed to protect people who have committed some illegal act which would otherwise cause them to be subjected...
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    listed: The Revenue Act 1767 passed on 29 June 1767. The Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 passed on 29 June 1767. The Indemnity Act 1767 passed on 2 July...
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    further trials and the remaining prisoners were pardoned under the Act of Indemnity 1747. They included Flora MacDonald, whose aristocratic admirers collected...
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    In contract law, an indemnity is a contractual obligation of one party (the indemnitor) to compensate the loss incurred by another party (the indemnitee)...
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    "Act of Indemnity" used to be passed annually, to relieve those who had not done so from the penalties incurred. There was no expression in this act limiting...
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    With the return of King Charles II, Parliament passed the Indemnity and Oblivion Act (1660), which granted amnesty to those guilty of most crimes committed...
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    Campbell, sometime called of Orinsay". An additional act called the Act containing some exceptions from the act of indemnity was passed that included heavy...
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    was repealed through the Indemnity (Repeal) Act, 1996. Published in an Extraordinary Bangladesh Gazette, the main purpose of the ordinance was described...
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    The Indemnity Act 1727 (1 Geo. 2. St. 2. c. 23) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of Great Britain during the reign of George II. It relieved...
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    the Act of Indemnity that was passed in June 1747. Another 382 obtained their freedom by being exchanged for prisoners of war being held by France. Of the...
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    were often exempted from some of these laws through the regular passage of Acts of Indemnity: in particular, the Indemnity Act 1727 relieved Nonconformists...
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  • State. 2. So soon as the Government of His Highness shall pass an Act of Indemnity with application to all inhabitants of Egypt, martial law as proclaimed...
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    had any coercive power over the King of England'". In framing the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, the House of Commons were unwilling to except Sir Henry...
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  • Immorality Act was the title of two acts of the Parliament of South Africa which prohibited, amongst other things, sexual relations between white people...
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  • The Mines and Work Act was a piece of legislation in South Africa, originally passed in 1911, amended in 1912 and 1926 before undergoing further changes...
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    The Indemnity Act 1717 (3 Geo. 1. c. 19, also referred to as the Act of Grace and Free Pardon, is an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The act was...
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    Charles Fleetwood (category Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
    Fleetwood was excluded from the Act of Indemnity of 1660, but escaped prosecution since he had not been involved in the Execution of Charles I in January 1649...
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    George Murray (general) (category British Army personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    Battle of Culloden in April 1746, Murray went into exile in Europe and was excluded from the 1747 Act of Indemnity. He died in the Dutch town of Medemblik...
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  • Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain. It was first published in serial form in Liberty magazine...
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    The Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program (Chinese: 庚子賠款獎學金; lit. '[Year] Gengzi Indemnity Scholarship') was a scholarship program for Chinese students to...
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  • factories”.: 201  Pass laws were repealed in 1986. The Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 deemed urban areas in South Africa as "white" and required all black...
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    to nearly all of Cromwell's supporters in the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, 50 people were specifically excluded. In the end nine of the regicides were...
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    The Indemnity Act 61 of 1961 was a law enacted by the apartheid government in South Africa, which protected the government from any legal repercussions...
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    Daniel Axtell (category Executed regicides of Charles I)
    Westminster Hall in January 1649, and as a result was excluded from the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion after the 1660 Stuart Restoration. He was hanged, drawn...
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    Flora MacDonald (category Prisoners in the Tower of London)
    supervision of a "King's Messenger" and released after the June 1747 Act of Indemnity. Aristocratic sympathisers collected over £1,500 for her, one of the contributors...
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  • Safety Act, 1953 Riotous Assemblies Act, 1956 Unlawful Organizations Act, 1960 Indemnity Act, 1961 General Law Amendment Act, 1963 Terrorism Act, 1967...
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    The Indemnity Act no. 13 of 1977 (Commencement 16 March) of South Africa was enacted following the suppression of the violence by the South African Police...
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    The Boxer Indemnities (simplified Chinese: 庚子赔款; traditional Chinese: 庚子賠款; pinyin: Gēngzǐ Péikuǎn) was an indemnity to which the Qing Empire of China committed...
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  • Protection and indemnity insurance, more commonly known as P&I insurance, is a form of mutual maritime insurance provided by a P&I club. Whereas a marine...
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