Who is the originator or father of the National Common Law System of England?

Question

Way back... Any help, please?

Answer 1

Henry II

Answer 2

No one man can be properly called the Father of "The Common Law System of England".
Going far back in history, Alfred the Great, King of Wessex (the south-western part of Saxon England in the ninth century) formulated a number of laws emerging from the experiences and decisions commonly held by moots, or meetings of thanes and people to discuss legislative and legal questions. It is in this communality that, sentimentally at least, every Englishman can see the roots of common law. Essentially, it was a centuries' long process borne of conflict between barons, Kings and commoners, such as that which led to Magna Carta (1215)- the blueprint for the Bill of Rights, and which was an attempt by aristocrats to limit executive power, and define common laws to everyone, Monarch and serf included. Unlike in France, England has no Napoleon to frame all our common law with their own handprint.

Answer 3

The English common law system is one that has developed from various elements over the years, but I believe the person you are referring to would be Henry II who essentially established the foundations of a common law system back in the 12 century.

Answer 4

This would generally be taken to refer to Henry II. As others have correctly pointed out, Henry II did much to update English law, including establishment of common law courts and courts of chancery or equity.

Answer 5

There was no actual founder. However, the modern process of collecting the decisions of courts and recording them probably started with a gentleman called Blackstone in the 17th century. Cases had been recorded before then, of course. Blackstone gathered them together and wrote a single treatise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone

Answer 6

why do some people answer a question when they don't know, for sake of getting points that so lame.

Norman conquest in 1066 started it all i think, they started an administration process which was complete by 1250, before this the law was based on customs passed down over the years.

Answer 7

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