English Common Law
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the Common Law
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Ancient Law
The legal system of England, cited twice as harshly treating dependent persons (wives, slaves).
The Danish and Swedish laws, harsh for many centuries to all females, are still much less favourable to wives than the generality of Continental codes And yet more stringent in the proprietary incapacities it imposes is the English Common Law, which borrows far the greatest number of its fundamental principles from the jurisprudence of the Canonists.
There is a great deal of evidence that in those American States which have taken the highly Romanised code of Louisiana as the basis of their jurisprudence, the lot and prospects of the Negro-population were better in many material respects, until the letter of the fundamental law was overlaid by recent statutory enactments passed under the influence of panic, than under institutions founded on th …
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The English legal system declared applicable throughout Ireland, replacing native succession customs.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century the Anglo-Irish Judges declared the English Common Law to be in force throughout Ireland, and from the date of this decision all land in the country descended to the eldest son of the last owner, unless its devolution was otherwise determined by settlement or will.