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{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom}}
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{{Infobox UK legislation
|short_title          = Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876{{efn|Section 1.}}
|type                 = Act
|parliament           = Parliament of the United Kingdom 
|long_title           = An Act for amending the Law in respect of the Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords; and for other purposes. 
|year                 = 
|citation             = [[39 & 40 Vict.]] c. 59 
|territorial_extent   = [[United Kingdom]]
|amends               = {{ubli|[[Church Discipline Act 1840]]|[[Judicial Committee Act 1871]]|[[Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1875]]}}
|royal_assent         = 11 August 1876
|commencement         = 1 November 1876, except where otherwise expressly provided{{efn|Section 2.}}
|repeal_date          = 1 October 2009{{efn|The [[Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2009]] ([[SI 2009]]/1604).}}
|amendments           = {{ubli|[[Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879]]|[[Statute Law Revision Act 1883]]|[[Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925]]}}
|repealing_legislation= [[Constitutional Reform Act 2005]]
|related_legislation  = {{ubli|[[Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873]]}}
|status               = Repealed
|original_text        = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/39-40/59/contents/enacted 
|revised_text         = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/39-40/59/contents
|use_new_UK-LEG       = yes
}}

The '''Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876''' ([[39 & 40 Vict.]] c. 59) was an [[Act of Parliament (United Kingdom)|act]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] that altered the [[judicial functions of the House of Lords]] by allowing senior judges to sit in the [[House of Lords]] as [[life peer]]s with the rank of [[Baron#Britain and Ireland|baron]], known as [[Lords of Appeal in Ordinary]].<ref>[[William Sharp McKechnie|McKechnie, William Sharp]], 1909: [https://archive.org/details/reformofhouseofl00mckeuoft ''The reform of the House of Lords; with a criticism of the Report of the Select Committee of 2nd December, 1908''], p.13</ref>  The first person to be made a [[law lord]] under its terms was [[Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn|Sir Colin Blackburn]] on 16 October 1876, who became ''Baron Blackburn''.

== Subsequent developmens ==
The whole act was repealed by sections [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2005/4/section/145 145] and [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2005/4/section/146 146] of, and schedule 17 to, [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2005/4/schedule/17/paragraph/9 paragraph 9], and [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2005/4/schedule/18/part/5 part 5] of schedule 18 to, the [[Constitutional Reform Act 2005]], which transferred the judicial functions from the House of Lords to the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]]. 
[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1604/article/2/made Articles 2(e) and (f)] of the [[Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2009]] ([[SI 2009]]/1604) provided that this repeal would take effect on 1 October 2009.

Following the creation of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the practice of appointing Lords of Appeal in Ordinary was discontinued. The last person to be made a law lord was [[Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore|Sir Brian Kerr]] on 29 June 2009, who became ''Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore''.

<gallery>
LordBlackburn (cropped).jpg|[[Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn|Sir Colin Blackburn]] (1813–1896), the first [[law lord]] appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876
File:Lord-Kerr.jpg|[[Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore|Sir Brian Kerr]] (1949–2020), the last  [[law lord]] appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Appellate Jurisdiction Act]]
*[[Judicature Act]]
*[[List of law life peerages]] and [[List of law life peerages#List of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary|List of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary]]

==Further reading==
*Robert William Andrews and Arbuthnot Butler Stoney. The Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, and the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876. [https://books.google.com/books?id=y5cSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Fourth Edition]. Reeves & Turner. Chancery Lane, London. 1885. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2KASAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Second Edition]. 1883.
*M D Chalmers, assisted by Herbert Lush-Wilson. Wilson's Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, Rules of Court and Forms. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4LkDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Third Edition]. Stevens and Sons. Chancery Lane, London. 1882.
*William Downes Griffith and Richard Loveland Loveland. The Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, 1873, 1875, & 1877: The Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876. [https://books.google.com/books?id=60AwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Second Edition]. Stevens and Haynes. Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London. 1877.
*William Thomas Charley. The New System of Practice and Pleading Under the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, 1873, 1875, 1877, The Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and the Rules of the Supreme Court. [https://books.google.com/books?id=I64DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Third Edition]. Waterlow and Sons. London. 1877.

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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==External links==
*{{UK-LEG|path=ukpga/Vict/39-40/59/contents}}
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