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    The Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 59) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, intended to protect animals, and in particular...
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    Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The act repealed two previous acts, the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822 and the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, and reiterated...
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  • Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity operating in England and Wales which promotes animal welfare. The RSPCA is funded...
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    were outlawed with the passing of the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 by Parliament, making it illegal to bait animals but promoting the matching of dogs against...
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    held not to include bulls. A further act, the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 59, s. 2) extended the wording of this Act to remedy the...
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    for animal experimentation, amending the Cruelty to Animals Act 1849. It was a public general Act. The Act was replaced 110 years later by the Animals (Scientific...
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    In England, the passage of the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 caused a decline of bull-baiting and dog fighting, leading to a lack of interest in perpetuating...
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    1822 and which lobbied for the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835. This law was later replaced by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, a law which the settlers brought...
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    England by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835. Therefore, the Old English Bulldog had outlived its usefulness in England as a sporting animal and its "working"...
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    the first German animal welfare society. One of the first national laws to protect animals was the UK "Cruelty to Animals Act 1835" followed by the "Protection...
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    trained dogs (which came to be known as bulldogs), was banned in England by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835. As with other animals, some bulls have been...
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    most of the animal tortures depicted were outlawed by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, so by the 1850s The Four Stages of Cruelty had come to be viewed...
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    Cock fighting was banned in 1835 with the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, a Mr Birch, the proprietor at the time endeavoured to sell the premises. The modern...
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  • the first national laws to protect animals was the UK "Cruelty to Animals Act 1835" followed by the "Protection of Animals Act 1911". In the US it was...
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    Kingdom implemented an Act called the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, which prohibited the baiting of animals. This may have led to decline in the aggressive...
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    Dog fighting (category Cruelty to animals)
    the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 of England and Wales. The Protection of Animals Act 1911 was specific in outlawing "the fighting or baiting of animals"....
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    Cockfight (category Cruelty to animals)
    England and Wales and in the British Overseas Territories with the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835. Sixty years later, in 1895, cockfighting was also banned in...
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  • against cruelty to animals. Key scholars in the history of animal ethics include René Descartes, who in the 17th century maintained that animals are automata...
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  • considerably over time. Britain's first anti-cruelty laws were introduced in the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835. After this development, many other countries...
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    United Kingdom implemented an act called the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, which prohibited the baiting of some animals, such as the bull, bear, and other...
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  • of bear-baiting and cockfighting through 'Pease's Act' (the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835); a bid to avert the Crimean War through personal interview with...
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    practice was outlawed by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835. George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle presented the building to Brampton Parish Council on 25...
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    Bear-baiting (category Cruelty to animals)
    high. It was not until 1835 that baiting was prohibited by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, introduced as a bill...
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    Humane society (category Animal welfare organizations)
    group that aims to stop cruelty to animals. In many countries, the term is used mostly for societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA). In the...
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    introduced the first legislation to prevent cruelty to animals, the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822; it pertained only to cattle and it passed easily in...
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    Brown Dog affair (category Animal cruelty incidents)
    Cattle Act 1822 Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 Cruelty to Animals Act 1849 Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 Wild Animals in Captivity Protection Act 1900 Protection...
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    Joseph Pease (railway pioneer) (category UK MPs 1832–1835)
    introduced as a bill the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, being a member of the committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The law was passed...
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    Badger-baiting (category Cruelty to animals)
    early as 1835, with the Cruelty to Animals Act. The practice of baiting of animals is now specifically forbidden under the Protection of Animals Act 1911...
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    Bull-baiting (category Animal combat organized by humans)
    Bull-baiting was not finally outlawed until parliament passed the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835, which forbade the keeping of any house, pit, or other places...
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    animals in the UK was regulated by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, which enforced a licensing and inspection system for vivisection. Animal cruelty was...
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