ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM

English Legal System



Contents

1. English Legal System........................... .......3

2. The English Legal System and the Common...............3

2.1 Description of English Law .......................4

2.2 Proceedings of the Common Law Institutions....... 5

2.3 'Old bailey'.......................................6

2.4 The Royal Council (Privy Council).................7

3. Legal System Identification, Comparison, and Analysis.9

4. References............................ ...............13



English Legal System

The English Legal System is established on old system of precedent which can be a hard-and-fast and rigorous. While discussing critically this system has with low speed been developing over time and can be traced back around in 1066. It is a legal system basically of England which became the foundation of the common law. And common law is the legal system which is used in all other countries of the world including U.S. English law is still the part of the U.S law prior to the revolution of America known as American Revolution. It gave the foundation to many of the policies and the legal traditions in the U.S afterwards. In jurisdiction, it is considered as a strict law. Common laws are basically made by the judges in courts where they put their sense of knowledge as compared to the English legal system. English Law of contract has become influential in regulating the English law in England, Wales and all commonwealth countries and has influenced international law regarding contracts (Kelly, 2008).

The English Legal System and the Common Law

The English legal system originated and spread in the countries that were part of the British Empire.. Is the set of rules and legal rules unwritten, but sanctioned and collected by custom or law that are the foundation of law in Anglo-Saxon countries (Geldart, 1995).

The system of common law sources is characterized by giving great importance to the jurisprudence. There are branches of law on which there are very few laws and are based primarily on the judgments of the courts. When a law in an area where previously only case, this is worthless, but the law is interpreted strictly, the minimum shifting jurisprudence. The courts are bound to follow decisions of higher courts and themselves in similar cases.

Description of English Law

English law developed independently of the rest of Europe after its consolidation as a legal system during the reign of Henry II in the twelfth century. That was the moment that created the central court system and "writs of actions" (royal orders). The main issue in the analysis of this development is that the system of English common law did, once established, rational responses (as for example, dropped the "Judgement by ordeal (trial subject to physical evidence and divine criterion) and replaced by a system of trial by jury and witnesses) that could meet all the needs of the rural pop-feudal society.

England adopted the system of common law before the continental Roman law was streamlined and studied enough to be a better alternative worthy of being imported. The central and unifying nature that affluent British Crown provided its legal system was unique in Europe and perhaps the best answer to the lack of early ...