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| Session | Short Title | Title | Statute Number |
| 1715 | Conveyances of estates by infants | To enable infants who are seized or possessed of estates in fee, in trust or by way of mortgage to make conveyances of such estates. | 2 George I c.6 |
| 1715 | Duke of Ormond | For extinguishing the regalities and liberties of the county of Tipperary and Cross Tipperary, commonly called the county palatine of Tipperary, and for vesting in his majesty the estate of James Butler, commonly called James, duke of Ormond, and for giving a reward of £10,000 to any person who shall seize or secure him, in case he shall attempt to land in this kingdom. | 2 George I c.8 |
| 1715 | Butter trade, timber, butchers and cattle | For the more effectual amendment of the law in relation to butter and tallow casks, and of an act for planting and preserving timber trees and woods, and of another act for prohibiting butchers from being graziers, and to redress several abuses in the buying and selling of cattle, and in the slaughtering and packing of beef, tallow and hides. | 2 George I c.16 |
| 1715 | Associations for security of king's person and government | To ratify and confirm the associations entered into by both houses of parliament for the preservation of his majesty's sacred person, royal family and government, and to oblige all persons that have any employments ecclesiastical, civil or military, to subscribe the same. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Draining bogs, and inland carriage | To encourage the draining and improving of bogs and unprofitable low grounds, and for easing and dispatching the inland carriage and conveying goods from one part to another within this kingdom. | 2 George I c.12 |
| 1715 | Cattle maiming | For supplying the defects of an act entitled an act to prevent the maiming of cattle. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Parish church of St Werburgh, Dublin | For rebuilding and enlarging the parish church of St Werburgh in the city of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Parish church of St Werburgh, Dublin | For changing the site and new building the parish church of St Werburgh in the city of Dublin. | 2 George I c.24 |
| 1715 | Restraining Papists from being constables, and parish watches | To restrain Papists from being high or petty constables, and for the better regulating of the parish watches. | 2 George I c.10 |
| 1715 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent debtors. | 2 George I c.23 |
| 1715 | Summary hearings for small debts | For reviving and amending an act entitled an act for the recovery of small debts in a summary way before the judges of assize. | 2 George I c.11 |
| 1715 | Indemnity for Protestant Dissenters serving in the militia | For exempting Protestant Dissenters from any penalties they have incurred or may incur by serving in the militia, when thereto called by lawful authority. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Regulating parliament elections | For regulating elections of members to serve in parliament. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Regulating parliament elections, fraudulent conveyances | For the more effectual preventing fraudulent conveyances in order to multiply voters for the electing members to serve in parliament, and for preventing of irregular proceedings of sheriffs and other officers in electing and returning such members. | 2 George I c.19 |
| 1715 | Preventing fires | For preventing mischiefs that may happen by fire. | 2 George I c.5 |
| 1715 | First fruits | For confirming the several grants made by her late majesty of the first fruits and twentieth parts payable out of the ecclesiastical benefices in this kingdom, and also for giving the archbishops, bishops and other ecclesiastical persons four years time for the payment of first fruits. | 2 George I c.15 |
| 1715 | Protection of salmon fry, and salmon fisheries | To prevent the destruction of salmon fry, and for the better preserving the salmon fishing in this kingdom. | 2 George I c.21 |
| 1715 | Flax and hemp | For continuing the encouragement given by former acts of parliament to the flaxen and hempen manufacture, and for the further improvement and regulation of the same. | 2 George I c.13 |
| 1715 | Fences between neighbouring lands | To oblige proprietors and tenants of neighbouring lands to make fences between their several holdings. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Militia | To make the militia of this kingdom more useful. | 2 George I c.9 |
| 1715 | To prevent the further growth of Popery | For the further explaining and amending of several acts of parliament to prevent the further growth of Popery. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Estates of Papists and non-jurors to provide satisfaction for losses of Protestants in case of insurrection | To subject the estates real and personal of the Papists and non-jurors in this kingdom, to make full satisfaction for all losses and damages that Protestants shall suffer in case any insurrection, invasion or rebellion shall be fomented, carried on or sustained by the Papists and non-jurors of this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Union and division of parishes | For real union and division of parishes. | 2 George I c.14 |
| 1715 | Obliging absconders named Garret Burke and Francis North to surrender themselve | To oblige Garret Burke, Francis North and others, who were ordered into custody, but had absconded so that they could not be taken, to surrender themselves by a day certain. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Security of king's person and government | For the further securing of his majesty's person and government, and for extinguishing the hopes of the Pretender and his open and secret abettors. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Attainting the Pretender | To attaint the person who, during the life of the late King James, took upon him the style and title of prince of Wales, and since the decease of the said King James hath assumed the names and title of James III, king of England and Ireland, and James VIII, king of Scotland, commonly called the Chevalier de St George, or the Pretender, and all his adherents, and to give a reward of £50,000 sterling to any person who shall seize and secure the said Pretender if he lands or attempts to land in this kingdom. | 2 George I c.4 |
| 1715 | Relief of creditors Sir Maurice Eustace | For the relief of the creditors of Sir Maurice Eustace, late of Harristown in the county of Kildare, knight, deceased, by sale of his estate, or a sufficient part thereof, for payment of his debts. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | William Ford | To enable William Ford of the city of Limerick, esquire, to settle a jointure, or make some other provision for his present wife, in case she happens to survive him. | 2 George I c.3 (private) |
| 1715 | Samuel Frend | For vesting certain lands and tenements in the county of Limerick belonging to Samuel Frend, esquire, in trustees, to be sold for raising money to discharge the debts and encumbrances of the said Samuel Frend, esquire, and for other uses and purposes therein mentioned. | 2 George I c.6 (private) |
| 1715 | Robert Hammerton, Richard Hamerton (or Hamerton) | For vesting certain lands and tenements belonging to Robert Hamerton, esquire, in trustees, to be sold for raising money to discharge the debts and encumbrances of his father, Richard Hamerton. | 2 George I c.5 (private) |
| 1715 | James Hamilton | For sale of part of the estate of James Hamilton, late of Bangor in the county of Down, esquire, deceased, for raising his daughters portions. | 2 George I c.4 (private) |
| 1715 | Walter Harris | To enable Walter Harris, esquire, eldest son and heir of Walter Harris the elder, late of the city of Dublin, merchant, deceased, to raise the sum of £1,200 by mortgage of part of his estate for payment of the debts, portions and other encumbrances charged thereon by his father the said Walter Harris, the elder, and to make leases for lives renewable of part thereof, not diminishing the present yearly value, and to charge the same with reasonable portions for his own younger children. | 2 George I c.7 (private) |
| 1715 | Arthur, Viscount Loftus of Ely; Letitia, Lady Viscountess; Mary, countess of Drogheda | For vesting part of the estate of the Right Honourable Arthur, Lord Viscount Loftus of Ely, Letitia, Lady Viscountess, his now wife, and Mary, countess of Drogheda, in trustees, for payment of debts and other uses. | 2 George I c.1 (private) |
| 1715 | William Wall | For better enabling William Wall of Coolnemuckey in County Waterford, esquire, to sell certain woods. | 2 George I c.2 (private) |
| 1715 | Patrick Wemys | To enable Patrick Wemys, esquire, to sell certain houses in Dublin for payment of debts, and for settling lands in the county of Kilkenny and elsewhere to the same uses to which the houses to be sold were settled. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Criminal prosecutions for words spoken | To limit the time of criminal prosecutions for words spoken. | 2 George I c.20 |
| 1715 | Accepting affirmation of Quakers instead of oath | For accepting the solemn affirmation and declaration of the people called Quakers, instead of an oath in the usual form. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Quit, crown and composition rents | For the ease of his majesty's subjects in their paying of quit rents, crown rents and composition rents. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Recognition of King George's title to the crown | For recognising his majesty's title to the throne of Great Britain, France and Ireland. | 2 George I c.2 |
| 1715 | Additional duty | For granting to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale and strong waters, tobacco and other goods and merchandises. | 2 George I c.1 |
| 1715 | Additional duty | For continuing to his majesty the additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters, tobacco, and other goods and merchandises. | 2 George I c.7 |
| 1715 | Additional duty | For granting to his majesty an additional duty on wines and strong waters, and spirits perfectly made, and upon all spirits made and distilled of wine, and also a tax on salaries, profits of employments, fees and pensions therein mentioned. | 2 George I c.3 |
| 1715 | Revenue frauds in importing of brandy | For preventing abuses and deceits in his majesty's revenue by the importing of brandy in small quantities. | 2 George I c.18 |
| 1715 | Riots | For preventing tumults and riotous assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing of rioters. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Disputes about servants’ wages, and punishment of disorderly servants | To empower justices of the peace to determine disputes about servants, artificers, day-labourers' wages, and other small demands, and to oblige masters to pay the same, and to punish idle or disorderly servants. | 2 George I c.17 |
| 1715 | Liberty of the subject | For the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonment beyond the seas. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Vexatious suits | To prevent frivolous and vexatious suits in law. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Encouragement of tillage, and regulation of corn trade | For the encouragement of tillage, and the regulating of the buying and selling of corn. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Fees | To oblige all officers to return a list of their fees by a day certain. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Mensal lands | To explain part of a statute of the 10th and 11th of King Charles I entitled an act for the preservation of the church, as far it relates to demesnes of mensal lands. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Preservation of game | For explaining and amending an act, entitled an act for the better preservation of the game. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Security of king's person | For the further security of his majesty's person and government, and for the extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Enlistment in foreign service | To prevent his majesty's subjects listing themselves in foreign service. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Cattle maiming | For making more effectual an act entitled an act to prevent the maiming of cattle. | 2 George I c.22 |
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