The Russian Imperial estates are so called.
Apparel, Statutes of.
A series of sumptuary laws, passed about 1540, regulating the dress of the labouring and farming classes.
Appeals, Act of.
An Act passed in 1533, under Henry VIII, declaring the Church of England capable of dealing with its own spiritual questions, and forbidding appeals to any dignitary higher than the Archbishop.
Apprentices, Statute of.
A statute of Elizabeth, passed in 1563, by which no person was permitted to exercise a trade in England unless he had previously served an apprenticeship to it of seven years.
Apprenticeship (Transvaal).
This question was much debated in England in the early seventies, some people alleging that the apprenticeship of black children was a covert form of slavery, especially as indentures were transferable before a landdrost. On the annexation of the country in 1877, however, it was found that the charge was quite groundless.