Part one of term paper
English law, structure and traditions, was the basis for the early American justice system. The biggest influence on American law was English common-law or judge made law as it is sometimes called. English Common-law is legal precedent based on judges rulings in different courts in England such as: "Kings Bench which dealt with crimes, the Co ...

Part two of term paper
... the English court system a court that handled disputes of small amounts of money this is what we call today Small Claims Court. The English also had various other local courts that the colonies used as well. Codified laws or that is to say laws that are written down in a book of codes or body of laws were used by some of the more organized colonies. These codified laws were also loosely based on English law not to say that we took their laws and directly copied them down but suffice to say that ...