The case held that the only valid record of an Act of Parliament was that which had been "delivered into chancery," (that is, the final approved Act) and that it is conclusive as to the regularity of its enactment. Following this case, the law was established that the regularity of the process by which the Act was drawn up cannot be challenged in court. Nor can the law that existed before the new law be used to qualify or modify the approved Act. "Nothing turns upon what the law was before the statute."
