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The Common Law which Coke jealously upheld in the southern half of a single European island, is now the law of the land throughout the vast regions of Australasia, and of America north of the Rio Grande.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “The Common Law which Coke jealously upheld in the southern half of a single European island, is now the law of the land…”
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Roosevelt discusses the widespread influence of Common Law beyond its European origins.
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