Popery Act
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This article is about the Irish Act of Parliament. For the English Act of Parliament, see Popery Act 1698.
An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery (2 Ann. c. 6 (I); commonly known as the Popery Act or the Gavelkind Act)[2] was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland that was passed in 1704 designed to suppress Roman Catholicism in Ireland ("Popery"). William Edward Hartpole Lecky called it the most notorious of the Irish Penal Laws.[3]
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Act of Parliament | |
Long title | An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery |
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Citation | 2 Ann. c. 6 (I) |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 4 March 1704[1] |
Repealed | 13 August 1878 |
Other legislation | |
Amended by | Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793, Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 |
Repealed by | Promissory Oaths Act 1871, Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1878 |
Status: Repealed | |
Text of statute as originally enacted |
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Inheritance in traditional Irish law used gavelkind, whereby an estate was divided equally among a dead man's sons. In contrast, English common law used male primogeniture, with the eldest son receiving the entire estate. The 1704 act enforced gavelkind for Catholics and primogeniture for Protestants.