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A world-view that underpins everything the common [[lawyer]] holds dear: that, as far as makes any difference, there is nothing new under the sun, and if anything transpires to be, one should keep well clear of it. | A world-view that underpins everything the common [[lawyer]] holds dear: that, as far as makes any difference, there is nothing new under the sun, and if anything transpires to be, one should keep well clear of it. | ||
====A golden thread running though the web of English law==== | |||
By common myth, this is how the [[common law]] became the thing of many-faceted beauty we know today. No-one mentions the elephant in the room, never mind the fact that there are ''four'' of them, and all perched atop of a stack of turtles. You see, there can’t ''always'' have been a developed body of [[case law]]: at some point in its life, every law; every [[golden thread|golden stream]] running through it was buried deep in a great marble block, and those qualified to opine on it could do no more than walk around it, with a chisel, scratching their chins. | By common myth, this is how the [[common law]] became the thing of many-faceted beauty we know today. No-one mentions the elephant in the room, never mind the fact that there are ''four'' of them, and all perched atop of a stack of turtles. You see, there can’t ''always'' have been a developed body of [[case law]]: at some point in its life, every law; every [[golden thread|golden stream]] running through it was buried deep in a great marble block, and those qualified to opine on it could do no more than walk around it, with a chisel, scratching their chins. | ||
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