[steve-b]

The English got their legal traditions much the same way as the rest of Europe--from the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, it's power and clergy.

The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy had no laws?

Cite for that?

[Mamzelle]

Well, you could always direct me to the case law of the -- heptarchy...LOL. You realize that you're referring to 5-800 AD, when the Church had been there for centuries, and the Norman Invasion was just around the corner?

And, I'd like to see all this rhetoric that's supposed to be coming from the RR making a big deal about English Common Law being evidence for some important conclusion about belief over non-belief. Never have seen the argument actually made, only references here.