All Medieval English Common Law Founders

Medieval English Common Law Founders gathers the judges, legal writers and royal officials of medieval England, roughly the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, whose work built the common law itself: the body of judge-made law developed through the decisions of the royal courts rather than through a single written code. Their treatises, court records and legal arguments established the foundational method of the common law, deciding disputes by precedent and reasoning from earlier cases, that every later common law jurisdiction in this subcategory, from early modern England through the modern Commonwealth and the United States, continues to build on.