The impulse to interpret seems to me what makes personal essay writing compelling. Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination Mindy Farabee December 26, 2014 In âNot What It Used To Be,â you write about talking to your younger self, which is an impulse I think many of us will understand.
When William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, he combined the best of this Anglo-Saxon law with Norman law, which resulted in the English common law, much of which was by custom and precedent rather than by written code.
common law. n. the traditional unwritten law of England, based on custom and usage, which began to develop over a thousand years before the founding of the United States. The best of the pre-Saxon compendiums of the common law was reportedly written by a woman, Queen Martia, wife of a king of a small English kingdom.