POLI 320 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Roman Law, Grand Sanhedrin, Chthonic
2 Mar 2017
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Common law = the law of commoners (b/c common person came to bring the issues that were creating the law); also, one law common to all of the people. In common law, began in opposite way talmudic, islamic, civil adjudicating came disputes don(cid:495)t have a war with each other. Whereas in other systems, it started before written laws and legislation. The king came in (as foreign invader), says that the crown can solve all of your with philosophy or divine revelation, with rules, laws, or principles, and then governing/adjudicating came second to that. King eventually became overwhelmed by the amount of people coming to see him, thus established adjudicating system, and therefore created a chancellor. The king"s delegate for a given community, in a given dispute. Applying the law similarly across the land in its early form, the chancellor was the local judge.
