It provided that the Forcible Entry Act 1381 and one or more other pieces of legislation[which?]

It also authorised any justice of the peace, who had received a complaint that such a forcible entry had been committed, to take the power of the county to arrest any person found committing forcible detainer after that forcible entry.

The whole Chapter was repealed[3] for England and Wales[4] on 1 December 1977.

[5] This Act was applied to Ireland by Poynings' Law.

[6] This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 1 of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1983 (which repealed the whole of the 15 Ric 2, of which this Act is part).