Test Act
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
An act of parliament which prescribed that all officers, civil and military, should take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, with the oath of office, and make declaration against transubstantiation, in any of the king's courts at Westminster, or at the quarter sessions, within six calendar months after their appointment, and also within the same time should receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the church of England, in some public church immediately after divine service and sermon, and deliver into the court a certificate thereof, signed by the minister and church-warden. It was repealed in 1828, by Stat. 9 Geo. IV. ch. 17, so far as relates to receiving the sacrament according to the rites of the church of England.