history of english law?
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Magna Carta 1215 protected the Aristocracty from the King.  The begining of limited Government\n\nEdmund Burke \nJohn Locke's Two Treaties of Government
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try looking at this site. It should go at least part way to explaining.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_counties_of_England
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Slander/libel are part of British common law and have been part of the available torts sicne well before the United States was even colonized. There is no precise date, because in Britain there were not written laws for most things, just a set of precedents. It goes back at least to the 1200s.
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I once watched a great show on the history channel about the history of english. it was broken down in to three shows, old, middle and modern english. this isn't an answer, but i would try the history channel web site and she if they have any resources.
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In Oxford, the BCL is a taught postgraduate degree in English law - equivalent to the Master of Laws (LLM) offered by other British universities. It is the highest taught course in law at Oxford, and is widely considered to be one of the most academically rigorous legal degrees in the Commonwealth. At Oxford, the undergraduate law degree is a BA degree in Jurisprudence, equivalent to the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) offered by other British universities. After obtaining the BCL degree, it is possible (though rare) to proceed to the degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) in recognition of published work or court judgments. It is also possible separately to carry out legal research work as part of the Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) programme.\n\nThe Faculty of Civil Law in Oxford is so named to distinguish it from the faculty of canon law which was abolished in both universities by King Henry VIII in 1535. The syllabus consisted entirely of Roman civil law until the establishment of the Vinerian Professorship in English Law in 1758. Undergraduate examinations in law were not established until 1850, with the separate BA undergraduate honour school of Jurisprudence being established in 1872.\n\nThe Faculty of Civil Law in Cambridge was renamed the Faculty of Laws after the teaching of English common law was introduced in the 19th century. The postgraduate degree in this faculty, retitled LLB, is now titled LLM. The BCL degree
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this sounds like a concept that is specific to UK law. there is a definition in the source below but you might need to use edit/find to find the specific reference
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The Sixteenth Century\nPlease see more information by clicking the link below.
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This is a document writtne in 1215 by Archbishop Stephen Langton. It was a powerful charter, esentially a constitution that dictated a lawful means of interaction between the King and the fuedal lords of the land. It's intent was to prevent oppression from the king, and to protect the surfs and laymen of the country. It laid the ground work for common law. It provided the right for all to have access to the courts despite the costs involved with trials. War broke out and King John lost his lands in France. To overcome this burden, John raised taxes without the consent of the fuedal barrons. this was a breach of the charter and the Magna Carta's powere unfortunately flamed out. With war still going strong King John subsequently died leaving the throne to his 9 year old son Henry the III.
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Under the common law, many crimes were not set out in statutes.  \nSex with animals, a crime against nature, was such a common law crime, and would pre-date Columbus.  \n\nMale homosexual sex was, probably, also a common law "crime against nature" but was specifically prohibited by a statute passed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, also predating Columbus.  The English colonies in America were, of course, subject to this law.\n\nInterestingly, Female homosexual sex was not prohibited by the Elizabeth I law.  I have seen published accounts which state that when she read the proposed statute (which did include a prohibition of female homosexual acts) the queen stated something like "ladies do not do such things" and required that those provisions be taken out of the statute.\n\nIf you need more information than this, the best place would be a law school library which may have early books of statutes from the 1780s through 1800s.
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The English/United Kingdom does not have "a bill of rights" the Magna Carta is the closest thing we have to it.\n\nThe Magna Carta established the principle that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant. \n\nIt basically contains few statements of principle but is more a list of consessions by the very unwilling King John.\n\nIt guarded the power of the barons and free men against the Crown, serfs were not included.\n\nIt did lay down the idea of Jury trial by your peers. In the case of the magna carta it stated Earls and Barons can only be fined by their equals.\n\nNo free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. And the state will not deny or delay the right of justice.
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Iambic pentameters. Check it out on Wikipedia or google or something. By the way, it's not Old English. Old English is hundreds of years earlier.
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Magna Carta (Latin for "Great Charter", literally "Great Paper"), also known as Magna Carta Libertatum, was originally an English charter from 1215. Magna Carta is the most significant early influence on the long historical process that has lead to the rule of constitutional law today. Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between the Pope, King John and his English barons over the rights of the King. Magna Carta required the king to renounce certain rights and respect certain legal procedures and to accept that the will of the king could be bound by law.\n\nThere are a number of popular misconceptions about Magna Carta, such as it was the first document to limit the power of an English King by law (it was not the first, and was partly based on the Charter of Liberties); that in practice it limited the power of the king (it mostly did not in the Middle Ages); and that it is a single static document (it is a variety of documents referred to under a common name).\n\nMany later attempts to draft constitutional forms of government, including the United States Constitution, trace their lineage back to this source document. The influence of Magna Carta can be clearly seen in the U.S. Bill of Rights, which enumerates various rights of the people and restrictions on government power.
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Latin - who knows . . . is the answer searchable?\n\nI cheated . . . looked it up . . . \n\nOld English (449 - 1066 CE)\n\nThe Old English language (also called Anglo-Saxon) dates back to 449 CE. The Celts had been living in England when the Romans invaded. Although they invaded twice, they did not conquer the Celts until 43 CE and Latin never overtook the Celtic language. The Romans finally left England in 410 CE as the Roman Empire was collapsing, leaving the Celts defenseless. Then the Germanic tribes from the present-day area of Denmark arrived. The four main tribes were the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. These tribes set up seven kingdoms called the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy that included: Mercia, Northumbria, Kent, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, and East Anglia. Four dialects were spoken in these kingdoms: West Saxon, Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian. The Celts moved north to Scotland, west to Ireland and south to France, leaving the main area of Britain.
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the magna carta was a treaty i believe between the king of england and the nobels of england.  you should google it.  common laws are laws made by the court through court decisions.  before there were legislatures (congress, parliment, etc) courts had the authority to makes laws.  If a man and a woman lived together like 8 years (i think its 8) then they are considered married under common law.  no marriage necessary.
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Will this help?\n\nhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=What+democratic+laws+did+the+English+establish+after+their+Glorious+Revolution&btnG=Search&meta=
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English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to Britain in the 5th Century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany. The original Old English language was subsequently influenced by two successive waves of invasion. The first was by speakers of languages in the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family, who colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries. The second wave was of the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Norman (an oïl language closely related to French).\n\nAccording to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, around the year 449, Vortigern, King of the British Isles, invited the Angles to help him against the Picts. In return, the Angles were granted lands in the south-east. Further aid was sought, and in response came Saxons, Angles, and Jutes. The Chronicle talks of a subsequent influx of settlers who eventually established seven kingdoms. Modern scholarship considers most of this story to be legendary and politically motivated.\n\nThese Germanic invaders dominated the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants, whose languages survived largely in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland. The dialects spoken by the invaders formed what would be called Old English, which resembled some coastal dialects in what are now north-west Germany and the Netherlands. Later, it was strongly influenced by the North Germanic language Norse, spoken by the Vikings who settled mainly in the north-east (see Jórvík).\n\nFor the 300 years following the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Norman kings and the high nobility spoke only Anglo-Norman. A large number of Norman words were assimilated into Old English. The Norman influence reinforced the continual evolution of the language over the following centuries, resulting in what is now referred to as Middle English.\n\nDuring the 15th century, Middle English was transformed by the Great Vowel Shift, the spread of a standardised London-based dialect in government and administration, and the standardising effect of printing. Modern English can be traced back to around the time of William Shakespeare.
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Hi Violet.\n\nWhat area of tort were you reading about? I don't have this particular book as it is too far out of date.\n\nThere must be some context in which importance was attached to what was said, perhaps a reference to some precident or case?