The common law as it grew in England, with the institutions and doctrines that made it: the royal courts, the Crown, writs and forms of action, and the older harsh procedures. It also covers the legal systems of the United Kingdom and Ireland, the home jurisdictions of the family. A legal system or legal concept belongs here when its cited article describes English, British or Irish common law or one of its founding mechanisms. It excludes overseas jurisdictions, which sit in the regional groups.
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Common Law of the British Isles and Its Foundations
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Common law (Wikipedia)
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Common law is the body of law primarily developed through judicial decisions rather than statutes.
English law (Wikipedia)
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English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures.
Mechanisms of the English common law (Wikipedia)
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In the English system of common law, judges have devised a number of mechanisms to allow them to cope with precedent decisions.
Peine forte et dure (Wikipedia)
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Peine forte et dure (Law French for "hard and forceful punishment") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead ("stood mute") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon their chest until a plea was entered, or death resulted.
The Crown (Wikipedia)
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The concept of the Crown as a corporation sole developed in the Kingdom of England as a separation of the physical crown and property of the kingdom from the person and personal property of the monarch.
Central Intelligence Agency: United Kingdom, The World Factbook (factbook.json archive copy)
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common law system; has nonbinding judicial review of Acts of Parliament under the Human Rights Act of 1998
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