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POYNING'S LAW

Volume 16 · 66 words · 1810 Edition

an act of Parliament made in Ireland under Henry VII, whereby all the statutes of force in England were made of force in Ireland; which before that time they were not.—Nor are any now in force there made in England since that time.

The law took its name from Sir Edward Poyning, lord-lieutenant of that kingdom at the time of its making. See IRELAND, No. 46.