Sore -

There is an immense differece between the history of all common law and the derivation of the manner in which it is applied currently within any given legal jurisdiction.

For the sake of not arguing the point, which seems fruitless, I will concede that all common law derives from that instant when one big monkey whacked another monkey, because the second monkey had whacked another monkey. The big monkey said "don't do that again." That was the first law and all else derives from it.

John