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Ancient Law
English legal professionals of the eighteenth century, described as lacking a clear reforming principle before Bentham.
English lawyers of the last century were probably too acute to be blinded by the paradoxical commonplace that English law was the perfection of human reason, but they acted as if they believed it, for want of any other principle to proceed upon.
The Roman and English contrivances have very much in common, and illustrate each other most instructively, but there is this difference between them, that the object of the English lawyers was to remove complications already introduced into the title, while the Roman jurisconsults sought to prevent them by substituting a mode of transfer necessarily unimpeachable for one which too often miscarried.
The Law of Torts
The community of practitioners of English law whose traditional habits of mind shaped how property claims came to be classed under torts.
By a series of shifts and devices introduced into legal practice for the ease of litigants a great bulk of what really belonged to the law of property was transferred, in forensic usage and thence in the traditional habit of mind of English lawyers, to the law of torts.
” Such seems to have been the early Germanic law, and such was the current opinion of English lawyers until the beginning of this century, if not later.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
English lawyers as a professional group, presented as the natural bearers of legal conservatism and as inheritors, later, of the odd fictions of the old law.
The conservatism then of the English Revolution found its natural representatives in English lawyers.
These long labyrinths of judge-made fictions, which were far more intricate than can be made apparent without giving details unsuitable for the purpose of these lectures, seem to a lawyer of to-day as strange as the most fanciful dreams of Alice in Wonderland.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Practitioners of English law referenced regarding reception of Roman classification.
English jurisprudence was, no doubt, very little affected by this assumption, but English lawyers occasionally come across the inferences from it when they have to deal with Private International law, or, in other words, with the conditions upon which one community will recognise and apply a portion of the jurisprudence of another.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The professional body of English lawyers whose received historical theories of law are criticized at the opening of the lecture.
The historical theories commonly received among English lawyers have done so much harm not only to the study of law but to the study of history, that an account of the origin and growth of our legal system, founded on the examination of new materials and the re-examination of old ones, is perhaps the most urgently needed of all additions to English knowledge.