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Old 05-19-2008, 08:27 AM
Jerry Pitts Jerry Pitts is offline
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Originally Posted by rottweiler
Off the top of my head I would say common law is what the people say it is. Supposedly the common law was mixed with equity in 1938 so it is difficult to determine which statutes are law and which ones are equity. That is where the peers come in. The only people who get a trial by jury of their peers is people, not persons and not citizens. If the jury of peers are 100% sold on it then it is law.

What is really cool is the sovereign of the court can decree the law. So when government takes on one of the people and that people knows what he is doing the government better produce an injured party.

Don't know about you, but I am heading on another fishing trip. I am going back (intellectually speaking) to the time when the Magna Charta was signed, study that document again and find out from those involved in the signing, what was meant by 'common law'. They started the common law, so if anyone knows what common law is, they should know.

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