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 ClarendonClinton, A Compendium of English History, 1874, p 46 1164 Assize of ClarendonDouglas and Greenaway. English Historical Documents, 1042-1189. 2nd Ed. 1981. Taylor & Francis. 2007. p 436 1166 Assize of NorthamptonDouglas and Greenaway, p 441 1176 Statute of MertonCrabb, p 223 1235 Provisions of OxfordCoss and Lloyd (eds). Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Conference, 1985. p 89. 1258 Statute of KenilworthCraies and Hardcastle, p 610 1266 (51 & 52 Hen 3) (or Dictum de Kenilworth) Statute of Marlborough 1267 (at the time known as the Statute of Marlbridge) Statute of Westminster I 1275 Statute of Gloucester 1278 (6 Edw 1) Statute of Rutland34 Journal of the British Archaeological Association 452; 1 Ruffhead's Statutes at Large 76 1282 (10 Edw 1) Statute of Acton Burnell 1283 (11 Edw 1) Statute of RhuddlanEdwards, Flintshire, 1914, p 104 1284 (or the Statute of Wales) Statute of Westminster II 1285 Statute of Winchester 1285 Statute of ExeterOliver, 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. 1285 or 1286 (13 or 14 Edw 1) Statute of Westminster III 1290 Statute of StamfordReport on the Dignity of a Peer, 1820, p 258 1309 Statute of Lincoln 1316The 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 Edw 2)Tyrrell, Bibliotheca Politica, 1718, p 380. (or the Statute of Lincoln de vice-comitibus or the Statute of Sheriffs)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. Statute of Carlisle (15 Edw 2) Statute of YorkThe Statutes: Revised Edition, vol 1, p 120; Cary, p 47. 1318 Statute of Westminster IVBetham, The Origin and History of the Constitution of England, 1834, p 141 1320 Statute of NorthamptonO Hood Phillips, 1960, p 98Brown, Northamptonshire, 1911, p 87 1328 (2 Edw 3) Statute of KilkennyLynch, 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. 1367 Second Statute of NorthamptonBrown, Northamptonshire, 1911, pp 87 & 89. (1380) Statute of Westminster 1931O Hood Phillips, 1960, p 100

The following Act is not named after the place where it was passed: Isle of Man Act 1958 Island of Rockall Act 1972 Isle of Man Act 1979

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

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