The Administration of Justice Act 1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 11) was an act of the Parliament of England.
Subsequent developments Sections 1–3 and 5–7 of the act were repealed by section 2 of, and part II of the schedule to, the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 59), which came into force on 15 August 1879. Section 4(2) of that act provided that the repeal did not operate in respect of any court other than the Supreme Court of Judicature in England.
Section 4 was repealed by section 2 of, and part I of the schedule to, the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 59), which came into force on 15 August 1879.
Sections 1 to 3 and 5 to 7 were repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 49). But see section 7 of that act as to the Lancaster Palatine Court and the inferior civil courts (now abolished).
Sections 99(1)(f) and (g) of, and schedule 1 to, the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 49) provided that the whole act, so far as unrepealed, could be repealed by rules of court made under section 99 of that act.
In Section 8, the words from "from and after" to "ninety and seven" were repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62), which came into force on 30 July 1948.
Case reference The act was referred to by the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords decision on Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. v. Don Jose Ramos Yzquierdo y Castaneda (1904) as the law "upon which English lawyers rely" for making the distinction between damages and penalties.Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., Limited v. Don Jose Ramos Yzquierdo y Castaneda, published 19 November 1904, accessed 16 May 2016
See also Administration of Justice Act
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References Halsbury's Statutes