Law: English Common Law

The judge-made law of England, built from royal courts and recorded custom from the 12th century: Glanvill's Tractatus (c. 1188) is its first treatise, Coke's Institutes (1628) its great systematisation.

RENAISSANCE 3.0 POSITION: the living pledge (vivum vadium) against the dead pledge (mortgage), Living Pledge chapter.

· 1188– · active