User:Oatmealo/Common law practice
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Common law practice concerns how people actually apply common law both in their daily lives and in a lawsuit setting – as understood specifically within much of the patriot, tea-party, and common law movements within the United States. This is an understanding which greatly differs from that of many contemporary legal professionals. Within this understanding, this article specifically addresses how common law is practiced as functioning completely outside of civil law contexts, and differs quite significantly from other articles on common law which specifically address common law within the professionally popular civil content.
Within this understanding, outside of civil law, common law functions using the assumption that at the American Revolution the jurisdiction of the king of England and reciprocally the judges of the king's courts fell upon the people themselves to determine for themselves the law. Such individually applied common law is actively practiced by many people in former British colonies and particularly within the Common law movement.
Common law in this context is studied as it was practiced and set forth by the king himself and by his judges such that the practitioner may function as the king did in his own court.