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Common law originated from England and has been inherited by almost every nation once tied to the British Empire (except Malta, Scotland, the us state of Louisiana, and the Canadian province of Quebec). In medieval England, the Norman conquest the law varied-shire-to-shire, based mostly on disparate tribal customs. The concept of a “frequent law” developed through the reign of Henry II in the course of the late twelfth century, when Henry appointed judges that had authority to create an institutionalised and unified system of law “frequent” to the country. The next main step in the evolution of the common law…
