Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Statute of Allegiance de Facto

Hist. A statute requiring subjects to give allegiance to the actual (de facto) king, and protecting them in so doing. 11 Hen. 7, ch. 1. Statute of Amendments and Jeofails(jefaylz) Hist. One of several 15th- and 16thcentury statutes allowing a party who acknowledges a pleading error to correct it. 1 Hen. 5, ch. 5 (1413); 32 Hen. 8, ch. 30 (1540); 37 Hen. 8, ch. 6 (1545). See JEOFAIL.