LAWS 1002 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, White People, Common Law
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Common law: law we discern from looking at what judges have to say about dispute over the years. To determine what the law is, go and read cases about what has been done. Not everything has to be written down in a statute. Property is still to a large extent regulated by common law. Also has to meaning of law becoming uniform across the land in england, which were then inherited here. England was a variety of small kingdoms each rules by own chiefdom. All constantly at war with each other. First king to try to claim to have a larger kingship. King of the angles tied to a people, not a geographic area. Most of his time keeping norse away. His reign was first attempt to codified and write down the key laws applicable at that time. The alfred code some kind of notion to access to royal justice.
