Talk:Common law
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The information on the common law page contradicts the information on the lex terre page. Recommended course of action is to use reliable sources, being the writings of Coke, Blackstone and other early commentators on the common law. Lawyers are not sources of the law.
sources of the law: The origins from which particular positive laws derive their authority and coercive force. Such are constitutions, treaties, statutes, usages, and customs. In another sense, the authoritative or reliable works, records, documents, edicts, etc., to which we are to look for an understanding of what constitutes the law. Such, for example, with reference to the Roman law, are the compilations of Justinian and the treatise of Gaius; and such, with reference to the common law, are especially the ancient reports and the works of such writers as Bracton, Littleton, Coke, Fleta, Blackstone, and others. [1]
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- ↑ Black's dictionary of law, 5th edition
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