These were the hallowed dictates of the English common law that William Blackstone, the acknowledged authority on the common law, openly acknowledged was an inheritance from the feudal system ...

It may be surprising that the find that the issue of water rights was an essential feature in the development of English common law, particularly since England is an island surrounded by water and ...

and canon law, the prohibition against double jeopardy came into the United States Constitution from English common law. According to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England ...