[POLI 343] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 26 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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Lecture i: history of the common law legal system. England: the source of the common law legal system. Roman era: 43 ce - 5th century. Civil law traveled with the roman empire, civil law receded from england after the romans left. Anglo-saxon era: angles, saxons, jutes, danes dominant groups in southern england. No common legal system among the four tribes, they had their own customary legal systems. Most legal traditions were unwritten at the time. Over time, these systems are written down separately. Norman invasion (1066): william the conqueror, wanted to be the only king of all lands and territories. He wanted to have a unified rule, constructed a 3 part legal system: Feudalism: one of three sets of nobility, the king granted lands to them: referred to as the landed gentry, and had serfs on their lands. This concept was basically the birth of feudalism.
