List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1877


This is a list of acts of the Parliament of [the United Kingdom] passed in the calendar year 1877 and the session 40 & 41 Vict.
The session 40 & 41 Vict was the fourth session of the twenty-first Parliament of the United Kingdom. Sources published during the regnal year 40 Vict refer to this session as 40 Vict, because, at that time, it was not known when the session would end. This session opened on 8 February 1877.
During the year 1877 and the session 40 & 41 Vict, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed 69 public general acts; 40 public acts of a local character, which were placed amongst the local and personal acts; 242 local acts; 11 private acts printed by the Queen's Printer; and 4 private acts not printed.
The number shown after each act's short title or popular title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held.
Most of these acts have a short title. Some of these acts have never had a short title. Some of these acts have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896.

Public general acts

Local acts

Chapters i to c

Chapters ci to cc

Chapters cci to ccxlii

Private acts

Printed by the Queen's Printer
Not printed
  • An Act to naturalize Donald James Mackay, and to grant to and confer upon him all the rights, privileges, and capacities of a natural-born Subject of Her Majesty the Queen.
  • An Act to naturalize Jean Thomas Antoine Leopold de Virte, Margaret de Virte his wife, and Emma Maria Louisa Isabella de Virte their daughter, and to grant and confer on them all the rights, privileges, and capacities of natural-born Subjects of Her Majesty the Queen.
  • Robey and Chantrell's Patent Act 1877
  • An Act to dissolve the Marriage of James Caulfield Beamish, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Cork City Regiment of Militia Artillery, with Elizabeth Ivers Beamish his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other purposes.

Tables and indexes

There are tables of the statutes of this year and session; indexes to the statutes of this year and session; and tables of the effect of the legislation of this year and session.