English law

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English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, characterized by judge-made precedent, an adversarial court process, and significant historical influence on many other legal systems worldwide.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf common law system
legal system
appliesInJurisdiction England and Wales
developedFrom medieval English common law
royal courts of England
hasCharacteristic adversarial procedure
case law based
incremental development of rules
judge-made precedent
stare decisis
hasComponent administrative law of England and Wales
civil law of England and Wales
company law of the United Kingdom
constitutional law of the United Kingdom
contract law of England and Wales
criminal law of England and Wales
employment law of the United Kingdom
equity
family law of England and Wales
private law of England and Wales
property law of England and Wales
public law of England and Wales
English law self-linksurface differs
surface form: tort law of England and Wales

trusts law of England and Wales
hasCourtSystem County courts of England and Wales
Court of Appeal of England and Wales
Crown Court of England and Wales
High Court of Justice of England and Wales
Magistrates' courts of England and Wales
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
hasHistoricalOrigin Court of Common Pleas
Court of Exchequer
Court of King’s Bench
surface form: King's Bench
hasKeyStatute English Bill of Rights
surface form: Bill of Rights 1689

Human Rights Act 1998
Judicature Acts
Magna Carta
hasLegalProfession barristers
judges
legal executives
magistrates
solicitors
hasLegalTradition common law
hasSource Acts of Parliament
European Convention on Human Rights
judicial decisions
royal prerogative
statutory instruments
influenced Australian law
Canadian law
Hong Kong law
Indian law
Irish law
New Zealand law
Singapore law
United States law
many Commonwealth legal systems
isDistinctFrom Northern Ireland law
Scots law (to a limited extent)
surface form: Scots law
isPartOf law of the United Kingdom
recognizesDoctrine binding precedent
parliamentary sovereignty
rule of law
separation of powers
usesLanguage English

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Normans culturalInfluenceOn English law
Manx law distinctFrom English law
F. W. Maitland fieldOfWork English law
English law hasComponent English law self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: tort law of England and Wales
subject surface form: Seething Lane
this entity surface form: England and Wales law
Heathfield hasLegalSystem English law
this entity surface form: English common law
this entity surface form: English common law
this entity surface form: English common law
this entity surface form: English common law
British Crown legalConceptIn English law
Crown of Ireland legalConceptIn English law
Akrotiri and Dhekelia legalSystem English law
Clause 39 legalSystem English law
subject surface form: Dame Anne Rafferty
this entity surface form: English common law
Paul Dudley legalSystem English law
this entity surface form: English common law
this entity surface form: English common law
Curia Regis relatedTo English law
this entity surface form: English common law