Pollock and Maitland said, in their History of English Law of 1895: “In so far as feudalism is mere property law, England is of all countries the most perfectly feudalised”. In England ...

But in another remarkable 13th-century development, English law was also beginning to protect human life by prohibiting abortion, a lesson from history that too few are aware of. Given recent pro ...

The emphasis of the articles in this series is to trace the development of the English common law system and its later impact ...