Edward Jenks: Legal

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“It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.”

Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 67

“Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.”

Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter II, Sources Of The Common Law, p. 17