Oct 13, 2025 · Common law, the body of customary law, based on judicial decisions and embodied in reports of decided cases, that has been administered by the courts of England …

Under the common-law system, when a court decides and reports its decision concerning a particular case, the case becomes part of the body of law and can be used in later cases …

Oct 13, 2025 · Indeed, England and the United States have so many legal differences that they are sometimes described as “two countries separated by a common law.” The most striking …

Conspiracy, in common law, an agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act or to accomplish a lawful end by unlawful means. Conspiracy is perhaps the most …

The criminal law of England and the United States derives from the traditional English common law of crimes and has its origins in the judicial decisions embodied in reports of decided cases.

The Norman conquerors granted the validity of customary law, adapting it to their feudal system. After the great transformations of the 13th and 14th centuries, when English law was given …

Oct 13, 2025 · By the 13th century, three central courts— Exchequer, Common Pleas, and King’s Bench —applied the common law. Although the same law was applied in each court, they vied …

Administrative law, the legal framework within which public administration is carried out. It derives from the need to create and develop a system of public administration under law, a concept …

Now an employee, for example, can be barred from competing with his employer after discharge or resignation. Statutes have facilitated specific performance of cooperative-marketing …

Civil law, also called Romano-Germanic law, the law of continental Europe, much of Latin America, and parts of Asia and Africa, based on an admixture of Roman, Germanic, …