Several prominent Mexican families established ranches in which area of Texas during the early 1800s?

The best way, and easiest way, to think of Common Law is to think of it as "judge made law."

That is, common law is the body of law that has emerged as judges have considered and ruled on issues.

A key feature of common law is a respect and understanding of precedent.

This means that lawyers, when approaching a case, will look to see how similar issues were handled by judges in the past.

They will use they as persuasive evidence that judges should follow that line of reasoning with the case at hand.

This means that there is large amount of law in British influenced countries (US, UK, etc.) that have regulations + a body of law that is made by the judiciary.

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