Explain the relationship between the common law (judge made law), and the following historical sources of law, custom, equity and books of authority. Determine, through the use of judicial comment, academic comment and case law, whether such historical so

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Great Britain does not have a written constitution in the way it is referred to in other states - a single written document or series of documents. However, it does have a legal system based on certain written sources that are of great importance and are acknowledged as unwritten constitution or also uncodified one. Nowadays' most important ones are statute law, common law, European union laws, legal treaties and other conventions that are nevertheless bound to other sources of law that date long back in time. This essay aims to explain the relationship between those sources and to underpin the importance of historical ones to the English legal system today.

The set of rules that are now in the bottom of the governing system in England were created by King William I in 1066. At that time England had adopted from the Europe different customs that were practiced in regions. Shire Court, Hundred Court and Franchise Courts enforced those traditional practices in order a more common ruling system to be developed. Thus, there were Dane law, Mercian law and Wessex law, governing the north and north-eastern England, central England and southern and western England. King William I had faced