The Statute of Westminster 1275, enacted in the reign of King Edward I of England, is one of the earliest English statutes to survive as originally enacted. It restated and clarified existing common law across a wide range of subjects, including free elections, the rights of the church, limits on excessive fines, and criminal procedure, and portions of it remained on the statute book for centuries. Historians regard it as an early landmark in England's development of statute law as distinct from custom.
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