LSM | Common Law 1

Prof W. Morrison - "To study law in a common law jurisdiction is not to learn a set of rules,

statutes or even principles – it is to try to understand a ... "

(a)  

The year (a)   was a turning point for the English Legal System.

The people were governed by (a)   that varied from community to community

and passed from one generation to the other

The Norman England under King (a)   gave way to Curia Regis

It was King Henry II and his carefully built up bench of (a)   judges,

who had started the wheel in perpetual motion which generated the English Common law

By the 15th century, the procedures of the common law courts had become

slow, expensive and very technical, with a lack of satisfactory (a)  

(a)   are a set of legal rules developed to overcome some of the inflexibility

of the rules and procedures of common law courts.

Where there is a conflict between common law and equity,

(a)   shall prevail.

The British Constitution is written, yet (a)  

According to the (a)   , everyone is equal before the law.