English Courts
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English courts · courts of Common law · courts of Equity
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The English judicial system, cited as similarly bound by the weight of precedent.
To any one further who had studied the weight given to precedent by English Parliaments, no less than by English Courts, it must have been, or perhaps rather ought to have been, certain in 1900 that legislation already tending towards collectivism would in the earlier years of the twentieth century produce laws Edition:
Institutes of Roman Law
English judicial systems compared with Roman compensatio; Equity permitted set-off before it was introduced into Common law by statute.
A defendant was allowed to deduct his cross demand or independent debt from the demand of the plaintiff by the English courts of Equity, but not by the courts of Common law, until the Statutes 2 Geo.