The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7Grolier Incorporated, 1996 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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COMMON LAW is the term denoting the legal sys- tem that developed in England and then spread to many other parts of the ... Today the common law continues to flourish even where British rule no longer pre- vails - most notably in the ...
COMMON LAW is the term denoting the legal sys- tem that developed in England and then spread to many other parts of the ... Today the common law continues to flourish even where British rule no longer pre- vails - most notably in the ...
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Some of the rules that they en- forced were excessively harsh and contrary to common ideas of fairness . There was much em- phasis on formalism and ritual , particularly in the field of contract and property law , where the tendency was ...
Some of the rules that they en- forced were excessively harsh and contrary to common ideas of fairness . There was much em- phasis on formalism and ritual , particularly in the field of contract and property law , where the tendency was ...
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Thenceforth , whenever an equity rule con- flicted with a common law rule , the equity rule prevailed . THE MERGER OF LAW AND EQUITY This solution was neither wholly satisfactory nor permanent . It made little sense to have two sets of ...
Thenceforth , whenever an equity rule con- flicted with a common law rule , the equity rule prevailed . THE MERGER OF LAW AND EQUITY This solution was neither wholly satisfactory nor permanent . It made little sense to have two sets of ...
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