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 that the private law which was developed in England by a French-speaking court was just one more French coutume. Sohm, Fränkisches Recht und römisches Recht, p. 69: 'Die Vorgeschichte des englischen Rechts von heute hat nicht in England, sondern in Nordfrankreich ihre Heimath.&hellip;Stolz kann die Lex Salica auf die zahlreichen und mächtigen Rechte blicken, welche sie erzeugt hat.'

Blackstone, Commentaries, vol. III., p. 149; J. H[oddesdon], ''Tho. Mori Vita'', Lond. 1652, p. 26.

Smith, Commonwealth, ed. 1601, p. 141: &lsquo;withernam&hellip;is in plaine Dutch and in our olde Saxon language wyther nempt.&rsquo;

Pollock, First Book of Jurisprudence, p. 283, from Dyer's Reports, 188b, in the notes added in ed. 1688: 'Richardson, ch. Just, de C. Bane, al Assises at Salisbury in Summer 1631. fuit assault per prisoner la condemne pur felony que puis son condemnation ject un Brickbat a le dit Justice que narrowly mist, & pur ceo immediately fuit indictment drawn per Noy envers le prisoner, & son dexter manus ampute & fix al Gibbet sur que luy mesme immediatment hange in presence de Court.' In France the Ordonnance of Villers-Cotterets (1539) decreed that the judgments of the French courts should be recorded no longer in Latin but in French. 'L'utilité de cette innovation&hellip;se comprend assez d'elle-même. On dit qu'un motif d'une autre nature, l'intérêt des belles-lettres, ne contribua