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:
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).
^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.
^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
^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.