This article is about the Irish Act of Parliament. For the English Act of Parliament, see Popery Act 1698.
United Kingdom legislation
Popery Act 1704[n 1]
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Ireland
Long title
An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery
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Repealed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Repealed by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Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
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]
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.
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^Andrew Lyall; Land Law in Ireland; ISBN 1-85800-199-4
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