Who divided the history of the common law into three main periods?
John Henry Wigmore
Known as the oldest and most prominent law in English history.
Magna Carta
Which language dominated English legal proceedings after the Norman Conquest?
French
This early 20th-century legal scholar identified seven key forces that shaped American common law, including Puritanism and feudalism.
Roscoe Pound
Evolves from the customs, traditions, and lived experiences of the people.
Common Law
Common law is divided into these three periods.
1100-1400
1400-1600
1700-1900
Aside from Cambridge and Oxford, what was another place for legal education?
Inns of Court
Which system did the Normans introduce to England and the Spanish to the Philippines?
Feudalism
After rejecting monarchy, this country developed a legal system focused on liberty, minimal government, and individual moral responsibility.
United States
In 1295, this statute was passed to expand legal remedies through new types of writs in English common law.
Statute of Westminster
Who famously described judges as the “living oracles” of the law, because they interpret and apply community customs to real disputes.
William Blackstone
On what year was the parliament system established?
1295
Early English Law was unwritten; it was rooted in performing the correct ceremonies and uttering sacred words. Freidric Maitland described this using the term:
Supernatural
This ancient philosopher believed that strict application of law should sometimes yield to fairness, influencing the roots of equity.
Aristotle
As there was a gradual transformation where "imperium" – public authority – became "dominium" – private ownership. What was once public land increasingly became the property of the king. Which doctrine was born? It is a concept still deeply rooted in our Philippine Constitution today.
Regalian Doctrine
Which group of settlers contributed to the early formation of English society after the fall of the Roman Empire?
Angles, Saxons, Danes, and Norsemen
The merchant courts eventually got absorbed into the common courts by whose efforts in the 17th century?
Lord Mansfield
Under which period did the Philippines also have a foreign legal system that made legal participation hard for the average native?
Spanish Rule
This legal principle states that you must have acted fairly to seek fairness in equity.
“He who comes into equity must come with clean hands”
What is the title of William, who invaded England and became its king in 1066?
Duke of Normandy