In article , I wrote:
At least the 1936 Act has been repealed (by a Statute Law Reform Act,

oops, Statute Law Revision Act

so not because of a specific replacement)

I should have clarified for those not familiar: SLR Acts basically
repeal Acts or parts of Acts whose provisions have either been
superseded by later laws, or is effectively dead but needs a formal
stake through the heart.

For example, clause 25 of Magna Carta:
One measure of Wine shall be through our Realm, and one measure of
Ale, and one measure of Corn, that is to say, the Quarter of London;
and one breadth of dyed Cloth, Russets, and Haberjects, that is to
say, two Yards within the lists. And it shall be of Weights as it is
of Measures.
is superseded by the various bits of Weights and Measures legislation,
and so the 1948 SLR Act repealed it.

Similarly, the concept that women can't accuse men of murder was
effectively dead long ago, and so clause 34:
No Man shall be taken or imprisoned upon the Appeal of a Woman for
the Death of any other, than of her husband.
was repealed by the 1863 SLR Act (1872 in Ireland). [That particular Act
repealed almost half of the Great Charter.]

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