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The article under review is 'How to compare now' by Pierre Legrand.

Summary

Common law is the law that comes from ordinary people, legislation, which comes from the "experts."

Common law occurs at the root of society: the law is not imposed by some authority from on high. The development of common law was "essentially a private matter in terms of millions of people in dozens of generations and spans several centuries." It is a process that is self adjusting and coming out every day unnoticed, without great expense to the state and the splitting of society. This compares with the legislative ...