Compare the court structures of England and the United States.

The common law system: the law-family descending from medieval England — law made byjudges (precedent's accumulation) rather than legislated codes, adversarial in procedure, jury- tried in origin, case-law method in education — spread by empire to the United States, most of the Commonwealth, and (through India) indirectly to Nepal's procedure and legal culture.Origin (1066 and all that): the Norman Conquest's royal justice — the King's courts (Westminster's Bench and Exchequer) gradually unifying local custom into law common to the realm: the writ system's formulary actions; the jury's emergence (the community's oath-tellers becoming fact-finders); the doctrine of precedent's slow crystallization; the professions' early division (serjeants, barristers, attorneys).The equity supplement (the system's first great development): common law's rigidity (the Provisions of Oxford's closed writs) drove petitioners to the Chancellor — conscience's court; equity (the trust, injunction, specific performance, the maxims) developed beside the common law until the Judicature Acts 1873–75 fused their administration (the Earl of Oxford's Case conflict-resolution; the modern single-court system applying both bodies: "equity follows the law").The milestones: Magna Carta 1215 (law above the king); Coke's Bonham's Case (1610) and the 17th-century struggles (parliamentary sovereignty's victory — the Glorious Revolution 1688); Blackstone's Commentaries (1765 — the law's first great statement); the 19th century's reforms (the Judicature Acts; the abolition of the forms of action; codification's rejection — the failure…