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1. 1. A Concise History Of The Common Law

   

   A compact narrative tracing the emergence and development of the common-law system from its medieval origins through its institutionalization and spread, explaining how royal courts, procedural forms, and judicial decision-making gradually displaced local customs and alternative legal traditions to produce a coherent body of precedent-driven law; it examines the influence of canon and Roman law, the growth of equity as a corrective, the transformation of remedies and forms of action, and the reforms of the nineteenth century that modernized courts and procedure, while also surveying the transplantation of common law to the colonies and its enduring principles such as stare decisis and the central role of judges in shaping doctrine.

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