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.
The working out of these remedies has, over time, produced the modern system in which rights are seen as primary over procedure. Until the late 19th century, English common law continued to be developed primarily by judges rather than legislators. The common law of England was largely created in the period after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Anglo-Saxons, especially after the accession of Alfred the Great (871), had developed a body of rules resembling those being used by the Germanic peoples of northern Europe.