[Sir Gawain]

Repeat it as much as you want if it makes you feel better. Won't make it any more true.

[orionblamblam]

> Won't make it any more true.

[boggle]



OK, where *did* the English common law come from? Did the pagan Saxon common law show up on English shores, immediately vanish in a puff of logic, and then something startlignly similar -BUT WHOLLY UNRELATED TO THAT PAGANRY -suddenly spring into the forebrain of some monk or bishop?