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Bill Number0088Session1791
Title To prevent vexatious arrests, and proceedings in actions of slander.
Initial Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 24 Mar 1791Leave or Order to James Fitzgerald Prime Serjeant [0735]
Presented 24 Mar 1791Presented by Arthur Wolfe Attorney General [2243]
2nd Reading & Committed 29 May 1791   
Reported 31 Mar 1791Reported by Mr Stanley [1978]
Sent to Other House 31 Mar 17912nd House Reporter Charles Wilkinson Jones Viscount Ranelagh [4050]
Sent to Chief Governor 4 Apr 1791   
Privy Council Stages
Received & Referred to Law Officers15 Apr 1791 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Approved 
Engrossed 20 Apr 1791 
Returned Bill Stages
Royal Assent 5 May 1791 
Statute Number 31 George III c.32
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