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Statutes concerning forcible entries and riots confirmed

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ7604678 ↗
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Statutes concerning forcible entries and riots confirmed or the Forcible Entry Act 1391 (15 Ric. 2. c. 2) was an act of the Parliament of England.

The act provided that the Forcible Entry Act 1381 (5 Ric. 2 Stat. 1. c. 7) and one or more other pieces of legislation were to be held and kept and fully executed. It also authorised any justice of the peace, who had received a complaint that such a forcible entry had been committed, to take the power of the county to arrest any person found committing forcible detainer after that forcible entry.

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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—1391, 1381—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Statutes, concerning and forcible can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Statutes concerning forcible entries and riots confirmed” 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.