DICTUM DE KENILWORTH
dictum de Kenilworth (dik-t<<schwa>>m dee ken-<<schwa>>l-w<<schwa>>rth), n.[Law
Latin “edict of Kenilworth”] Hist. A declaration of an agreement between Edward I and the barons who had opposed him under the leadership of Simon de Montfort. • The agreement, which
concerned rent on the lands forfeited in the rebellion, was so called because it was made at
Kenilworth castle in Warwickshire in A.D. 1266. It was published in the Statutes of the Realm and
52 Hen. 3. [Blacks Law 8th]