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Excerpt from Lectures, Elementary and Familiar, on English Law IT is usual to speak of the laws of a country as being of two sorts, the unwritten law, and the written law: leges non scriptm; leges scriptes. In the case of England, the unwritten laws, consisting of the ancient customs and usages of the people, are called the Common Law, or the common law of the land. The written laws are the Statutes, or Acts of Parliament. These latter derive their authority from the common law. Thus, according to an ancient custom and usage, part Of the common law, an assembly called the Parliament has the most complete legislative power. Laws made by it become as completely parts of the. Law of the land as the common law itself. It is an ancient custom and usage of the people to obey acts of parliament: therefore it is a part of the common law that they are to be obeyed. They supersede the parts Of the common law with which they happen to be inconsistent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.