Wales and Berwick Act 1746とは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Wales and Berwick Act 1746 (20 Geo. II, c. 42) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain explicitly stating that all future laws applying to England would likewise also be applicable to Wales and Berwick-upon-Tweed unless the body of the law explicitly stated otherwise. The Act came 39 years after the Acts of Union 1707 had united the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain; the previously implicit legal definition of England was made explicit — "perhaps superfluously", in William Blackstone's opinion. Berwick, historically a royal burgh in Scotland, remained a county in its own right, and was not included in Northumberland for Parliamentary purposes until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.