Someone commented:

In the USA, the book that is commonly used is called "Robert's Rules of Order." I think the book was originally based mainly on the rules of the US House of Representatives.

No cigar; sorry.

The actual, historical story: Back about the time of the American revolution, a Lt. David Robert had occasion to chair a meeting, and wanted to know about order. After much searching, he found that there was no authoritative (nor even unauthoritative) codification. Speaking to many various people, he learned many practices, not all of which were compatible with each other, and learned that there seemed to be no commonly understood rules at all about certain situations. So he wrote, partly from what he'd learned and partly out of his own imagination, Robert's Rules of Order, which evidently fulfilled a widely shared need. He published it with that title, and it is around today, with almost no change from what he wrote all those years ago.

Dave Oesterreich