<P> The common law -- so named because it was `` common '' to all the king 's courts across England -- originated in the practices of the courts of the English kings in the centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066 . The British Empire spread its legal system to its historical colonies , many of which retain the common law system today . These `` common law systems '' are legal systems that give great precedential weight to common law , and to the style of reasoning inherited from the English legal system . </P>
<P> The common law -- so named because it was `` common '' to all the king 's courts across England -- originated in the practices of the courts of the English kings in the centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066 . The British Empire spread its legal system to its historical colonies , many of which retain the common law system today . These `` common law systems '' are legal systems that give great precedential weight to common law , and to the style of reasoning inherited from the English legal system . </P>
he concept of basic law originated in which country
he concept of basic law originated in which country
England
England