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In the Laws of Cnut, it was formally laid down that no one is to bother the King with his complaints, so long as he can get Justice in the Hundred.

— Edward Jenks A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912)

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It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

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The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

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Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

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

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The feudal warranty is, doubtless derived from the ancient duty of the feudal lord to protect his liege man 'with fire and sword against all deadly'. It was of the essence of the feudal bond, that the vassal should be under his lord's protection.

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