Modern law in English-influenced Judiciaries

Two great systems of law dominate the Western world: civil law and common law. Civil law is descended from the codified laws of the Roman Empire; it is used by most European countries. Common law, by contrast, is not embodied in a text or code. Rather, in England - and, by heritage, the United States, United Kingdom and Commonwealth descendants of English judicial tradition - common law grew from the "manorial court" system of the Middle Ages and evolved case after case in court decisions. Although now sharing equal status with civil law in the Anglo-oriented judicial systems, common law is based upon relational experience and precedent. Historically, the common law judge of medieval England did not consult an official text before rendering his judgement, but drew instead upon precedents established by other court decisions. Jurists eventually wrote learned commentaries on the common law. Although these commanded the respect of the legal profession, they did not constitute law and judges were not compelled to follow them when deciding cases. Common

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ng dependency of the peasantry (Hone 3-13). By the time of the Norman Conquest, the basic structures of feudalism and manorialism were already in place in England. The organizational codification of William I in the Domesday Book census (1085-86 A.D.) established both firmly by erasing whatever egalitarian tendencies the displaced Anglo-Saxon structure had exhibited. Without equal as a public record in medieval Europe, Domesday surveyed the taxable potential of lands held by the king and of those allotted to his tenants-in-chief. It legitimized the changes imposed upon England by the Norman conquerors and provided the monarchy a detailed account of the financial resources, feudal and manorial, that the crown could exploit in the future (Lyon 54-55, Raftis 19-21). As practiced in England, then, in the classic manor the usable land was divided into the "demesne," the arable, and the meadow lands. The demesne was the land retained by the lord for his own use; arable land was parcelled out to the peasants, or tenants, whose right to the land was known as "tenure;" the meadow lands (aka "common lands") were generally used for grazing livestock and were available to all the tenants. Tenants rights to the arable land were usuall
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