Brief_History_of_C新ommon_Law.pptVIP

?Brief History of Common Law;Common law Statute Law European Union Law Civil law Criminal law …;The?common?law?is?historically?the?common?general?law?with?supremacy?over?local?law?——which?was?decreed?by?the?itinerant?judges?of?the?English?royal?court.?普通法在历史上是普通综合法，由英国皇家法院的巡回法官颁布的普通综合法地位高于地方法。;Common Law;1）Roman rule and Anglo-Saxon（pre-Conquest） 2）Norman conquest（William the First） 3） Henry Ⅰ (1100-1135) 4） Henry Ⅱ（1154—1189） 5) Henry Ⅲ 6）The writ system 7）Key features of the common law system ;1）Roman rule and Anglo-Saxon（pre-Conquest）;Law Anglo-Saxon law was based on local custom. And because England had been subject to so many invasions in the six centuries since the departure of the Romans, there were in fact several different sets of customs in different parts of the kingdom. there was not a set of rules which governed society as a whole. Legal structure The basic units of social and political organization were the counties and “hundred, the hundreds were subdivisions of counties. The hundreds courts were essentially meetings of important hundred residents. In addition to the hundreds courts ,feudal justice was also administered in the county courts held by the overlords of counties. ;2）Norman conquest（William the First）;Law In fact, the change that started in 1066 was neither sudden nor dramatic. William found awaiting him a fairly complicated system of dispute resolution. Indeed, one of his first acts was to declare that the old system of Anglo-Saxon laws would continue in force. Legal structure From the earliest times after the Conquest, the kings had gathered around them a body of trusted advisers. This body was known as the Curia Regis(御前会议) - the king’s court. But court was used in its older sense of referring to the kings personal retinue, rather than in the modern judicial sense. The King’s Court functioned as a general advisory body, providing the king with counsel and advice before he made decisions. ;In additi