List of legislation named for a place

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

References

David M Walker. The Oxford Companion to Law. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1980. p 16. [1].
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. [2].
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 [3] [4]

^ Clinton, A Compendium of English History, 1874, p 46
^ Douglas and Greenaway. English Historical Documents, 1042-1189. 2nd Ed. 1981. Taylor & Francis. 2007. p 436
^ Douglas and Greenaway, p 441
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Crabb, p 223
^ Coss and Lloyd (eds). Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Conference, 1985. p 89.
^ Craies and Hardcastle, p 610
^ 34 Journal of the British Archaeological Association 452; 1 Ruffhead's Statutes at Large 76
^ Edwards, Flintshire, 1914, p 104
^ 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.
^ Report on the Dignity of a Peer, 1820, p 258
^ 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.
^ Tyrrell, Bibliotheca Politica, 1718, p 380.
^ 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.
^ The Statutes: Revised Edition, vol 1, p 120; Cary, p 47.
^ Betham, The Origin and History of the Constitution of England, 1834, p 141
^ O Hood Phillips, 1960, p 98
^ Brown, Northamptonshire, 1911, p 87
^ 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.
^ Brown, Northamptonshire, 1911, pp 87 & 89.
^ O Hood Phillips, 1960, p 100

UK legislation

Pre-parliamentary legislation

Acts of parliaments of states preceding
the Kingdom of Great Britain

Parliament of England	1225–1267 1275–1307 1308–1325 Temp. incert. 1327–1376 1377–1397 1399–1411 1413–1421 1422–1460 1461 1463 1464 1467 1468 1472 1474 1477 1482 1483 1485–1503 1509–1535 1536 1539–1540 1541 1542 1543 1545 1546 1547 1548 1549 1551 1553 1554 1555 1557 1558–1575 1580 1584 1586 1588 1592 1597 1601 1603 1605 1606 1609 1620 1623 1625 1627 Petition of Right 1640 Interregnum (1642–1660) 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1670 1672 1675 1677 1678 1679 Habeas Corpus Act 1680 1685 1688 1689 Bill of Rights 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706
Parliament of Scotland	to 1707

Parliament of England