Growing similarity in rules of law The Beginnings of English Commercial and Maritime Law Notaries-their small place in English law The boroughs and fairs fail to get jurisdiction in the The common law and the Chancery Expansion of common law owing to jealousy of Council 114-115 116-117 Why it assumed a commercial jurisdiction Struggles for this jurisdiction foreshadowed. Reception of foreign doctrines of commercial and maritime law Commercial cases in the common law courts Peculiarities of the English development Possibility of commercial tribunals in England The number and power of the central courts The Admiralty more satisfactory than the others The same causes make commercial and maritime law part of the DEVELOPMENTs Outside the Sphere of the Common Law-(Continued) I. The Law Administered by the Council and the Star Chamber Their executive and judicial functions Carelessness with which its records were kept 161-162 The influence of the court on the development of English law Importance of its work in the law of crime and tort The influence of the procedure of the Star Chamber The civil and canon law-their influence on procedure abroad Contrast between English and continental criminal procedure English procedure needed strengthening . Some continental ideas borrowed The development of continental criminal procedure |