This dimension names the broader legal tradition that a specific legal system descends from. Wikipedia notes that modern scholarship has moved toward "an understanding of legal systems as drawing from multiple legal traditions or patterns" rather than fixed categories. Browsing this way traces a legal system back to the parent tradition it grew out of.
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1. Common law (Wikipedia)
WikipediaCommon law, lead section, primary source sentence
Common law is the body of law primarily developed through judicial decisions rather than statutes.
Common law, body section on origins
originated in the practices of the courts of the English kings in the centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066.
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