English law
Proper noun
Meaning
English law
The common law legal system of England and Wales, supplemented in Wales by Welsh law.
Synonym: English and Welsh law
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Examples
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.
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.
That charge [stealing over 200 horses] has never been proved against me, and it is held in English law that a man is innocent until proven guilty.
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.