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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poynings-law-1495/introduction",
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  "legislation": "aip/Hen7/10/22",
  "legislation_title": "Poynings’ Law 1495",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act confirming all the Statutes made in England. Rot. Parl. cap. 39.\nAll English statutes concerning the publick weal confirmed and to be used and exercised in Ireland; all statutes to the contrary, void.\nForasmuch as there been many and diverse good and profitable statutes late made within England by great labour, studie, and policie, as well in the time of our sovereign lord the King, as in the time of his full noble and royal progenitors, late Kings of England, by the advise of his and their discreet counsail, whereby the said realm is ordered and brought to great wealth and prosperity, and by all likelyhood so would this land, if the said estatutes were used and executed in the same:",
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  "status": null,
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      "text": "Short title given by Short Titles Act (Northern Ireland) 1951 (c. 1)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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