The Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 ( 39 & 40 Vict c 59) was an Act of the

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that altered the

judicial functions of the House of Lords Whilst the House of Lords of the United Kingdom is the upper chamber of Parliament and has government ministers, it for many centuries had a judicial function. It functioned as a court of first instance for the trials of peers, for Impeachment i ...

by allowing senior judges to sit in the

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s, known as

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords, as a committee of the House, effectively to exercise the judicial functions of the House ...

. The first person to be made a

law lord Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords, as a committee of the House, effectively to exercise the judicial functions of the House ...

under its terms was

Colin Blackburn Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, (18 May 1813 – 8 January 1896) was a Scottish judge who is remembered as one of the greatest exponents of the common law. At one point, Blackburn was a judge in the Court of Exchequer Chamber. On 16 October ...

on 16 October 1876, who became ''Lord Blackburn''. The Act was repealed by the

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,The

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. Following the creation of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the practice of appointing Lords of Appeal in Ordinary was discontinued. The last person to be made a law lord was Sir Brian Kerr on 29 June 2009.

References

*Robert William Andrews and Arbuthnot Butler Stoney. The Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, and the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876
Fourth Edition
Reeves & Turner. Chancery Lane, London. 1885
Second Edition
1883. *M D Chalmers, assisted by Herbert Lush-Wilson. Wilson's Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, Rules of Court and Forms
Third Edition
Stevens and Sons. Chancery Lane, London. 1882. *William Downes Griffith and Richard Loveland Loveland. The Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, 1873, 1875, & 1877: The Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876
Second Edition
Stevens and Haynes. Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London. 1877. *William Thomas Charley. The New System of Practice and Pleading Under the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, 1873, 1875, 1877, The Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and the Rules of the Supreme Court
Third Edition
Waterlow and Sons. London. 1877.

External links

* United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1876 Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning the House of Lords 1876 in law {{UK-statute-stub

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