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  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Learning

    "Learning is, in truth, a very great and a very considerable quality; and such as despise it sufficiently discover their own want of understanding: but yet I do not prize it at the excessive rate some others do; as Herillus the philosopher for one, who therein places the sovereign good, […]

  • The Genius of the Common Law

    The Genius of the Common law [1912], Sir Frederick Pollock The Genius of the Common law (New York: Columbia University Press, 1912). Chapters of the book in this Encyclopedia: Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2 Common law. The Giants and the Gods Common law. The Giants…

  • Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2

    Common law . Our Lady and Her Knights 2 Continue from Common law . Our Lady and Her Knights 2 From the book of Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] We must begin, however, at the beginning. It is easy to say that the law of our modern courts, for most…

  • Common Law: Our lady and her Knights

    Common law : Our lady and her Knights From: Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] See Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2 More than seven years have passed since I was invited to speak here in the name of our Common law . The renewal of such an invitation…

  • Top 25.000 English words

    Which are the top 25.000 most popular English words? According to a review from Lawi, these are the 25.000 most popular English words, in order: you the i to a and it of that in is me what this for my on your we have do no don’t are be i’m not was he it’s…