To: jf55510
So if judges didn't make up, who did?
"As we have seen the basis of Common Law was custom. The itinerant justices set out by William the Conqueror examined the different local practises of dealing with disputes and crime, filtered our the less practical and reasonable ones, and ended up with a set of laws which were to be applied uniformly throughout the country."
You must enjoy being thrashed.
399 posted on
08/26/2006 9:52:53 PM PDT by
Mojave
To: Mojave
No one is denying that it came from custom, practices, etc. However, that had to be created into legal principles, which traditions to follow and which traditions to throw aside, that was done by judges. Black's Law Dictionary defines the common law as "the body of law derived from judicial decision, rather than from statutes or constitutions." (2nd pocket ed.) It is judge made law.
406 posted on
08/26/2006 10:01:24 PM PDT by
jf55510
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