This is a really neat new site from the Department for Constitutional Affairs: a website with a complete database of UK Statute Law. It has law going right back from the present day to the 1267 [Statute of Marlborough](http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?LegType=All%20Primary&PageNumber=105&NavFrom=2&activeTextDocId=1517427), which includes what is apparently a [Remedy against Accountants](http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Primary&PageNumber=105&NavFrom=2&parentActiveTextDocId=1517427&ActiveTextDocId=1517431&filesize=2624) .
It also has, of course, the 1297 [Magna Carta](http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=magna+carta&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&TYPE=QS&NavFrom=0&activeTextDocId=1517519&PageNumber=1&SortAlpha=0), which is worth a flick through. Particularly this [remarkable restraint](http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=magna+carta&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=1517519&ActiveTextDocId=1517542&filesize=1490) on the king. In these days of Guantanamo Bay, ASBOs and Control Orders it’s maybe worth remembering just how far back these principles go.
UK Statue Law? Regarding the regulation of the height, girth and placement of large stone effigies, I presume?
Er, whoops, thanks Ian that’s fixed