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Common Law was NOT legislated, it is an accumulation of decisions made and accepted over time as the law, and Common Law changed over time. The first laws are the Laws of Hammurabi, 6000 BC, known as the eye-for-an-eye, survival of the fittest and quite barbaric, however accepted in its time. America's development took place after the Ten Commandments had become the source of Common Law decisions, and therefore easily befitting the Puritans, who were christians. Although the Ten Commandments are Old Testament, and were given to Moses on the Mount after Israelites exit from Egypt and before Christ was born, they are part of Bible. There was no written "Bible", as we know it now, but at time Ten Commandments were given, those tablets of stone were the first written laws given to Israel. AS Gentiles were evangelized per Jesus instruction they took a backseat to his two new commandments "Love God with all you heart, all your mind and all your soul." and the second one "Love your neighbor as yourself".
England was part of the Roman Empire at one time, and as the Empire fell and territory was lost, it came down to Constantine (who many claim was christian convert, I do not know), but in the end he divided the Roman Empire to Four Leaders. England lost the Romaninfluence and their laws were then influenced by protestant missionaries who came and evangelized the area. St. Patrick was Catholic missionary and his influence was felt strongest in Ireland. The two opposing religious influences are still being felt today, as we know by warring of catholics and protestants.
I don't know if I have answered your questions, and I am sure there is a typo or grammar mistake, so take your best shot! I am a christian, but that is not my reason for wanting the Ten Commandments left where they are. I want history to remain true, and if we allow them to be removed...then the "right to free speech" is over. Textbooks would have to become politically correct and any reference to Ten Commandments would be removed, and when truth is removed it is replaced with a lie. Is that what you want?

My Dear Sirs:
While it is certainly not my wish to interrupt your long-standing and highly entertaining exchange on the subject of the relationship betwixt what we have come to generalize as "British Common Law" and the sum of 'Judeo-Christian Values', I cannot help but feel you might both be interested if not intrigued to learn that many believe Judeo-Christianity has had a presence in the British Isles since centuries Before Christ. Both of you gentlemen seem prepared of regular learning to uncover the secrets of what is sometimes termed British-Israelitism. Any student of British history must eventually tackle this subject to a degree. My study of the material derived from a very interesting set of circumstances whilst I was engaged upon the enterprise of proving the supremacy of the Imperial System to the Metric System. The facts that I was to uncover about the nature of these measuring systems, and indeed the historical Judeo-Christian tradition of the British Isles are so unbelievable that almost every single scholar has dismissed them out of hand immediately. These I cannot re-state here for they are certainly too far out of the realm of that which is accepted too readily by the bulk of academia. I urge you both however to continue your quest for the origin of the British Common Law in this area. You will certainly not be disappointed in what you learn. A simple note on reliability of accounts; Please bear in mind that no mainstream scholar today is convinced in any great degree of the reliability of histories of any era without a plurality of accounts and manuscripts. It falls to the individual scholar, such as yourselves, to judge manuscript evidence and reliability of primary source material in this and every subject of early history, from this largely un-documented era. good luck!