“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.”

— Edward Jenks

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

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