由羅馬共和國開始，呢個準則就喺西方文明入邊流傳。喺英國普通法入邊，個基準係以格言「英國人嘅屋企就係渠座城堡」做開嘅。到咗17世紀，英國大律師兼法官Edward Coke爵士喺1628年所出嘅《英國法律研究會》中確立咗呢個渠成為正式嘅英國法例：
Since the Roman Republic, this principle has been circulating in Western civilization. In United Kingdom common law, the benchmark has always been based on the maxim "The home of the United Kingdom is the castle of the canal". In the 17th century, Sir Edward Coke, a barrister and judge of United Kingdom, established this channel as official United Kingdom law in his 1628 "United Kingdom Law Society":