“Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.”

—  Edward Jenks

Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter I, Old English Law, p. 4

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