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Coke
________ said,"Law is the perfection of reason, which commands what is useful and necessary and prohibits the contrary.
Procedure
________ dominates the common law, and in the cracks and joints of the procedural machine we can find rules of substantive law.
France
The codifications of private law in ________ (1804), Germany (1900), and other Continental countries represent broad and sudden substantive changes, particularly a nationalizing decentralization of the common heritage derived from Roman and canon (church) law.
jury system
The ________ is thought to be democratic, but, in fact, it is far older than European democracy.
New York
________ abolished the forms of action in 1848 when it adopted the Field Code of Civil Procedure, which authorized one complaint for all civil actions.
Sir Edward Coke
________ and Sir William Blackstone believe that the common law was the law of reason.
common law
All the English-speaking countries of the world have adopted the__________, and there is no common law country that has succeeded in translating the common law into another language.
middle ages
The roots of the common law lie in the _____________.
writ system
The _____________ exemplifies the interweaving of substance and procedure.
reason
Sir Edward Coke and Sir William Blackstone believe that the common law was the law of _____________.
