Sumptuary laws, those in restraint of luxury, excess in apparel, etc., as the Statute of Nottingham (10 Edw. 3, stat. 3), de cibariis utendis, repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64. They were mostly repealed by 1 Jac. 1, c. 25, 2 hall. Mid. Ages, c. 9, pt. 2, p. 493.
A statute, ordinance, or regulation that limits the expenditures that people can make for personal gratification or ostentatious display, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1450.