41. Their son Reginald Pyndar ( 1712 1788 ) changed his surname to Lygon in lieu of Pyndar, by private Act of Parliament. 42. In accordance with his late father's wishes, John Harrison changed his name to John Newport by private act of parliament. 43. Burke was a younger son of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and succeeded his brother private act of the English Parliament. 44. In 1971 Colorado revised its penal code and decriminalized sodomy in cases that involved non-commercial, private acts between consenting adults. 45. Even though they were raped, beaten or mutilated, the crimes against them were considered private acts rather than grounds for political asylum. 46. In the past the immigration courts considered violence toward women private acts , even when committed by a member of the government or military. 47. Like other Americans, the court ruled, the president is " subject to the laws for his purely private acts ." 48. Something is going on repeatedly that has to be stopped, and that is a confusion between private acts of infidelity and public acts. 49. What started as a private act of revenge soon turned into a full-scale civil war between local Ruthenian nobility and the Cossacks. 50. By 1629 all proceedings other than the acts themselves disappeared from the Parliament rolls and from 1759 the titles of private acts disappeared too.
