396, 54 C. C. A. 570. —Act of settlement. The statute (12 & 13 Wm. III. c« 2) limiting the crown to the Princess Sophia of Hanover, and to the heirs of her body being Protestants —Act of state. An act done by the sovereign power of a country,. of by its delegate, within the limits of the wer vested in him. An act of state cannot uestioned or made the subject of legal prodacdinge in a court of law—Act of supremacy. The statute (1 Eliz. c. 1) by which the supremacy of the British crown in ecclesiastical. matters within the realm was declared and established.—Act of uniformity. In English law. The statute of 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 4, enacting that the book of common prayer, as then recently revised, should be used in every parish church and other place of public worship, and otherwise ordaining a uniformity in religious services, etc. 3 Steph. Comm. 104.—Act of union. In English law. The statute of 5