Common law and King's Bench, were written in Latin. The rolls were made up in bundles by law term: Hilary, Easter, Trinity, and Michaelmas, or winter, spring, summer, and autumn. They are currently deposited in the UK National Archives, by whose permission images of the rolls for the Courts of Common Pleas, King's Bench, and Exchequer of Pleas, from the 13th century to the 17th, can be viewed online at the Anglo-American Legal Tradition site (The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center). The doctrine of precedent developed during the 12th and 13th centuries, as the collective judicial decisions
Welsh toponymy English spelling standards, which have affected how place-names are spelled in the two languages. For instance, a single "f" in Welsh is always pronounced /v/ (or is silent), while "ff" is pronounced /f/; thus, the Welsh word for river, "afon", is pronounced with a v-sound and so often spelled "Avon" when it appears in English place--names and river names. The study of Welsh place-names is promoted by the Welsh Place-Name Society (). Early inhabitants of Wales gave names first to noteworthy natural features, such as rivers, hills, mountains, harbours and shores. However, before the Roman occupation in the first century,