Matthew Hale (jurist)
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Sir Matthew Hale was an influential English lawyer, most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. He occupied various public offices both under the
1670 portrait of Hale by John Wright
William Noy, whom Hale served as a pupil
Richard Cromwell, who summoned the Third Protectorate Parliament
Hale as Chief Justice of the King's Bench
Common law
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The common law is the system of judge-made law that originates in the King's courts of medieval England and which has since been received to the former colonies of the British Empire.
Matthew Hale (jurist)
…his retirement in 1676, he served as Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Hale is widely regarded as one of the key figures in the development of the common law. Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict Puritan, and inherited…
A view of Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster, London, early 19th century
USCA: some annotated volumes of the official compilation and codification of federal statutes.
The Constitution of India is the longest written constitution for a country, containing 395 articles, 12 schedules, numerous amendments and 117,369 words.