“In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.” LawCertainCommunityCommonAirObjectsHonorConservativeVicesExperimentsInventionCommon SenseSensualityAppetiteConventionalGratificationProprietyIniquityNew InventionsAmenable Book:Character and characteristic men Source: Character and characteristic men
“The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly between 1150 and 1250, must be shared between the officials of the royal Chancery, who framed new forms, and the royal judges, who either allowed them or quashed them.” FormLawCommonJudgingAchievementCreditInventionOfficialsRoyalFramedCommon Law Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919 Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919