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Schism Bill

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The name of an act passed in the reign of Queen Anne, which restrained Protestant dissenters from educating their own children, and forbade all tutors and schoolmasters to be present at any conventicle or dissenting place of worship. The queen died on the day when this act was to have taken effect (August 1, 1714), and it was repealed in the fifth year of Geo. I. Wharton.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English law. The name of an act passed in the reign of Queen Anne, which restrained Protestant dissenters from educating their own children, and forbade all tutors and schoolmasters to be present at any conventicie or dissenting place of worship. The queen died on the day when this act was to have taken effect, (August 1, 1714,) and it was repealed la the fifth year or Geo. I. Wharton.

Defined under Schism in Black's Law Dictionary.