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The Inheritance of the Common Law Hamlyn Lecturers Please return to :- The Clerk to the Trustees, <T.J.Malim,Ssq The Hamlyn Trust 2, Vaughan Parade, TORQUAY, THE INHERITANCE OF THE COMMON LAW HAMLYN LECTURERS 1949 The Right Hon. Lord Justice Denning 1950 Richard O'Sullivan, K.C. THE HAMLYN LECTURES SECOND SERIES THE INHERITANCE OF THE COMMON LAW BY RICHARD O'SULLIVAN One of His Majesty's Counsel; Recorder of Derby; A master of the Bench of the Middle Temple LONDON STEVENS & SONS LIMITED 19S0 Firs! published in 1950 by Stevens & Sons Limited of 119 & 120 Chancery Lane London - Law Publishers and printed in Great Britain by the Eastern Press Ltd. of London and Beading CONTENTS The Hamlyn Trust page vii 1. THE CONCEPT OF MAN IN THE COMMON LAW . 1 2. THE FAMILY 33 8. THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY .... 63 4. LAW AND CONSCIENCE 93 THE HAMLYN TRUST HE Hamlyn Trust came into existence under the will of the late Miss Emma Warburton THamlyn of Torquay, who died in 1941 aged 80. She came of an old and well-known Devon family. Her father, William Bussell Hamlyn, practised in Torquay as a solicitor for many years. She was a woman of dominant character, intelligent and cultured, well versed in literature, music, and art, and a lover of her country. She inherited a taste for law, and studied the subject. She travelled frequently on the Continent and about the. Mediterranean and gathered impressions of comparative jurisprudence and ethnology. Miss Hamlyn bequeathed the residue of her estate in terms which were thought vague. The matter was taken to the Chancery division of the High Court, which on November 29, 1948, approved a Scheme for the administration of the Trust. Paragraph 3 of the Scheme is as follows :— ' The object of this charity is the furtherance by lectures or otherwise among the Common People of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the knowledge of the Comparative Juris- prudence and the Ethnology of the Chief European Countries, including the United Kingdom, and the circumstances of the growth of such Jurisprudence to the intent that the Common People of the United Kingdom may realise the privileges which in law and custom they enjoy in comparison with other vii viii The Hamlyn Trust European Peoples and realising and appreciating such privileges may recognise the responsibilities and obligations attaching to them '. The Trustees under the Scheme number nine, viz. : (a) Sir EDMUND BALL, "| Executors of Mr. S. K. COLERIDGE, > Miss Hamlyn's Mr. J. R. WARBUKTON J Will. (b) Representatives of the Universities of London, Wales, Leeds, Glasgow and Belfast, viz. : Professor G. W. KEETON, Professor D. J. LI. DAVIES, Professor B. A. WOKTLEY, Professor D. S. MACLAGAN, Professor E. ASHBY. (c) The Principal of the University College of the South West, ex officio. The Trustees decided to organise courses of lectures of high interest and quality by persons of eminence under the auspices of co-operating Universities with a view to the lectures being made available in book form to a wide public. The second series of four lectures was delivered by Richard O'Sullivan, Esq., K.C, in Leeds University in October and November, 1950. JOHN MURRAY, Chairman of the Trustees. November, 1950. THE CONCEPT OF MAN IN THE COMMON LAW (2) THE CONCEPT OF MAN IN THE COMMON LAW HE Common Law of England is one of the great civilising forces of the world. T Over a long series of centuries men have recorded their conviction of its essential worth and excellence. In one of the Year Books of Henry VI— the Year Books, which are the record of debates and events in court during a period of two and a half centuries from Edward I to Henry VIII, are the earliest source books of the Common Law—in one of the Year Books of Henry VI an anonymous scribe offers the opinion that ' the law is the highest inheritance of the King by which he and all his subjects shall be ruled. And if there were no law, there would be no king; and no inheritance '. In line with this opinion is an entry in Hawarde's Reports of Cases in the last decade of Elizabeth : ' The Common Law is the surest and best inheritance that any subject hath, and to lose this is to lose all. Qui perde ceo perde tout'. In the eighteenth century the same conviction was re-affirmed by the author who gave to the world his imperishable Commentaries on the haws of England. For William Blackstone the Common Law is ' the best birthright and noblest inheritance of mankind '. In passing let us re-mark the line of development of the one constant theme : the inheritance is ascribed in succession to the King, to his subjects, to mankind. 3 4 The Inheritance of the Common Law In the decade preceding the Declaration of Indepen- dence some 2,500 copies of Blackstone's Commentaries were purchased and received by the Colonies of the Atlantic seaboard, nearly as many as were sold in England. The Common Law, of which the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution are in many ways the natural offspring, thus became and is today the basis of the law of all the States save one of the American Union. The organic unity of the legal institutions and the legal science of England (and Ireland) and the United States has survived the passage of nearly two centuries of independent legis- lation and judicial activity. Australia and New Zealand also belong to the living tradition of the Common Law which guides the course of professional and public opinion and thus determines the character of Federal and of State legislation. The several provinces of the Dominion of Canada also share the inheritance and, though the Civil Code of Quebec is avowedly modelled on the Code Napoleon, yet in more ways than one the Common Law has set its mark on the substance of legal justice and on the law of Procedure in French Canada. In like manner the Roman-Dutch jurisprudence of South Africa, and in a measure also the Roman elements in Scottish jurispru- dence, have been unable to resist the missionary spirit of the Common Law and have suffered a reception of certain of its leading principles and ideas. In fact the tradition of the Common Law (which has a history of less than a thousand years) disputes nowadays with the older tradition of the Roman Civil Law (which has a history of twenty-five centuries) the hegemony and rule The Concept of Man in the Common Law 5 of the civilised peoples of the world. For the forms of law which govern the continental nations of Europe and their extra-European offshoots or dependencies, how- ever much these laws may have been modified by custom or recast in codes, are still those of the Roman Civil Law. In tracing the origin and growth of the Common Law one may accordingly hope to satisfy the terms of the Ilamlyn Trust by indicating some of the privileges that are part of our inheritance, and some of the respon- sibilities and the obligations that go with these privi- leges. Qui sentit commodum debet sentire et onus. He who takes a benefit must also bear the burden of responsibility that goes with it. ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF ENGLISH LAW It is, according to the Venerable Bede, in imitation of the Romans—juxta exempla Romanorum—that the first recorded utterance of the English. Law was written down. ' God's property and the Church's, twelvefold; bishop's fee, elevenfold; priest's fee, nine- fold; deacon's fee, sixfold; clerk's fee, threefold.' These are the opening words of the decrees that King Ethelbert is said to have established in the lifetime of Augustine. Perchance they had heard in Kent of the Code that a Christian Emperor of Byzantium had lately given to the world. For Roman law had made its testament just before the English law began to speak. ' Churches, bishops, priests, deacons, clerks— no German institutions these : they are Greek and Latin, names which must be taken up bodily into the language of the new converts.' ' English law ', adds 6 The Inheritance of the Common Law Maitland, ' has no written memorials of its heathenry. Every trace but the very faintest of the. old religion has been carefully expurgated from all that is written, for all that is written passes through ecclesiastical hands. A new force has already begun to transfigure the whole aim and substance of our law before the law speaks the first words we can hear.' In due course the laws of Ine and the West Saxons were also written down ' by the advice of the bishops and the oldest and the wisest men '. The laws of Alfred are introduced by a long preamble, with transla- tions of the Ten Commandments and passages from Exodus, followed by an account of Apostolic history and of the development of ecclesiastical law as laid down by Councils, Oecumenical and English. In these Anglo-Saxon documents there is no trace of the laws and jurisprudence of Imperial Rome as distinct from the precepts and traditions of the Church. In the Ten Articles he published after he obtained possession of England, William the Conqueror proclaimed that ' one God shall be honoured throughout the whole of the kingdom and that the Christian faith shall be kept inviolate '. KING'S COURTS AND COURTS CHRISTIAN The episcopal laws of the Conqueror direct that ' no bishop shall henceforth hold pleas in the Hundred Court, nor shall they bring forward for the judgment of laymen any case which concerns spiritual jurisdic- tion ; but whoever has been summoned for some suit or offence within the province of episcopal jurisdiction shall make answer in accordance with the Canon Law '.
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