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False Imprisonment Act 1410

United Kingdom legislation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ19873173 ↗
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The False Imprisonment Act 1410 List of acts of the Parliament of Ireland, 1400–1499#11 Hen. 4. c. 15 (I)) is an act passed by the Parliament of Ireland in 1410, during the reign of Henry IV as Lord of Ireland.

The act covered false imprisonment.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1410, 1400, 1499—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, False, Imprisonment and United is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “False Imprisonment Act 1410” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.