Consolidation Acts

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 428–429
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Consolidation Acts, acts of parliament which combine or consolidate into one general statute the enactments of several special measures, such as the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, the Titles to Land Consolidation Act, 1868, &c.

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