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Also Known As Anglo-American law

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William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone
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Sir Edward Coke
English jurist
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
United States jurist
Sir Matthew Hale, detail of an oil painting after John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Matthew Hale
English legal scholar
James Kent, portrait by Daniel Huntington; in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
James Kent
American jurist
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Henry de Bracton
British jurist
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Ranulf de Glanville
English politician and legal scholar