# Stamp Act 1815

Geo3/55 c. 184 · enacted 11 July 1815 · revised to 1 February 1991

An Act for repealing the Stamp Duties on Deeds, Law Proceedings, and other written or printed Instruments, and the Duties on Fire Insurances, and on Legacies and Successions to Personal Estate upon Intestacies, now payable in Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof.

## Introductory text

An Act for repealing the Stamp Duties on Deeds, Law Proceedings, and other written or printed Instruments, and the Duties on Fire Insurances, and on Legacies and Successions to Personal Estate upon Intestacies, now payable in Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof.
[11th July 1815]

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## 37 Penalty for not proving Wills, or taking Letters of Administration, within a given time, 100l. and 10 per cent. on the duty.

If any person shall take possession of, and in any manner administer, any part of the . . . estate and effects of any person deceased, without obtaining probate of the will or letters of administration of the estate and effects of the deceased, within six calendar months after his or her decease, or within two calendar months after the termination of any suit or dispute respecting the will or the right to letters of administration, if there shall be any such, which shall not be ended within four calendar months after the death of the deceased, every person so offending shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3/55/184 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/stamp-act-1815
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