List of legislation named for a place explained

This is a list of legislation named for a place, typically the place in which it was passed.

Medieval legislation was traditionally named, in particular, after the place where it was passed. (Medieval governments were itinerant or peripatetic before the end of the fourteenth century). Such popular titles were used to cite legislation in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (The citation of legislation by session did not begin until the end of the fourteenth century; and citation by short titles authorised by statute did not begin until the 1840s.)

United Kingdom and predecessor states

The following Acts are named after the place where they were passed:

• Constitutions of Clarendon^[1] 1164
• Assize of Clarendon^[2] 1166
• Assize of Northampton^[3] 1176
• Statute of Merton^[4] 1235
• Provisions of Oxford^[5] 1258
• Statute of Kenilworth^[6] 1266 (51 & 52 Hen 3) (or Dictum de Kenilworth)
• Statute of Marlborough^[4] 1267 (at the time known as the Statute of Marlbridge)
• Statute of Westminster I^[4] 1275
• Statute of Gloucester^[4] 1278 (6 Edw 1)
• Statute of Rutland^[7] 1282 (10 Edw 1)
• Statute of Acton Burnell^[4] 1283 (11 Edw 1)
• Statute of Rhuddlan^[8] 1284 (or the Statute of Wales)
• Statute of Westminster II^[4] 1285
• Statute of Winchester^[4] 1285
• Statute of Exeter^[9] 1285 or 1286 (13 or 14 Edw 1)
• Statute of Westminster III^[4] 1290
• Statute of Stamford^[10] 1309
• Statute of Lincoln^[4] 1316^[11] (12 Edw 2)^[12] (or the Statute of Lincoln de vice-comitibus or the Statute of Sheriffs)^[13]
• Statute of Carlisle^[4] (15 Edw 2)
• Statute of York^[14] 1318
• Statute of Westminster IV^[15] 1320
• Statute of Northampton^{[16] [17]} 1328 (2 Edw 3)
• Statute of Kilkenny^[18] 1367
• Second Statute of Northampton^[19] (1380)
• Statute of Westminster 1931^[20]

The following Act is not named after the place where it was passed:

• Island of Rockall Act 1972

See also

• List of short titles
• List of legislation named for a person
• Citation of United Kingdom legislation

References

• David M Walker. The Oxford Companion to Law. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1980. p 16. https://books.google.com/books?id=4GgYAAAAIAAJ.
• Colin Rhys Lovell. English Constitutional and Legal History: A Survey. Oxford University Press. 1962. p 140.
• Owen Hood Phillips. "Citation". A First Book of English Law. Fourth Edition. Sweet & Maxwell Limited. New Fetter Lane, London. 1960. Page 98 et seq at pages 98 to 100.
• Owen Hood Phillips. The Principles of English Law and the Constitution. 1939. p 102. https://books.google.com/books?id=unO0L9cmQXEC.
• Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England. 14th Ed. 1903. Volume 1. p 35. 12th Ed. 1895. Volume 1. p 67.
• Craies and Hardcastle. "Mode of citation of older Acts". Treatise on the Construction and Effect of Statute Law. 2nd Ed. 1892. Section 6 at p 57. There is a fuller list at "Popular or Short Titles of Statutes". p 604.
• Henry Raikes. A Popular Sketch of the Origin and Development of the English Constitution. W H Dalton. Cockspur Street, London. 1851. Volume 1. p 144.
• L S C, "Art VIII - Reddie's Historical Notices of Roman Law" (1836) 15 American Jurist and Law Magazine 342 at 346 (July)
• George Crabb. A History of English Law. First American Edition. Chauncey Goodrich. Burlington. 1831. pp 5, 222 & 223.
• Henry Cary (ed). A Commentary on the Tenures of Littleton. Saunders and Benning. London. 1829. p 47.
• 1 Blackstone's Commentaries (Hargrave's Edition) 86, note. (Note reproduced in Kerr's Edition, 1857, at p 68 of that edition, and in Wendell's Edition, 1850, at p 85 of that edition, attributing volume 1 to Hargrave).
• (1912) 77 The Westminster Review 364 (April)
• "The First Winter Meeting" (1905) 26 Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club xxvii https://books.google.com/books?id=HG5zVFwB7agC https://books.google.com/books?id=sPkbAQAAIAAJ

Notes and References

1. Clinton, A Compendium of English History, 1874, p 46
2. Douglas and Greenaway. English Historical Documents, 1042-1189. 2nd Ed. 1981. Taylor & Francis. 2007. p 436
3. Douglas and Greenaway, p 441
4. Crabb, p 223
5. Coss and Lloyd (eds). Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Conference, 1985. p 89.
6. Craies and Hardcastle, p 610
7. 34 Journal of the British Archaeological Association 452; 1 Ruffhead's Statutes at Large 76
8. Edwards, Flintshire, 1914, p 104
9. Oliver, The History of the City of Exeter, 1861, p 70. White. History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Devon. 2nd Ed. 1878 to 1879. p 323.
10. Report on the Dignity of a Peer, 1820, p 258
11. The Statute of Lincoln, 1316, and the Appointment of Sheriffs" (1917) 33 Law Quarterly Review 78; Ormrod, Killick, and Bradford (eds), Early Common Petitions in the English Parliament, c.1290-c.1420, p 25.
12. Tyrrell, Bibliotheca Politica, 1718, p 380.
13. Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, 1838, Volume 43, Commons, 25 June, col 991; Joy, Letter to the Right Honorable Lord Lyndhurst on the Appointment of Sheriffs in Ireland, 1838, p 4.
14. The Statutes: Revised Edition, vol 1, p 120; Cary, p 47.
15. Betham, The Origin and History of the Constitution of England, 1834, p 141
16. O Hood Phillips, 1960, p 98
17. Brown, Northamptonshire, 1911, p 87
18. Lynch, A View of the Legal Institutions, Honorary Hereditary Offices, and Feudal Baronies established in Ireland during the Reign of Henry the Second, 1830, p 60.
19. Brown, Northamptonshire, 1911, pp 87 & 89.
20. O Hood Phillips, 1960, p 100