Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> dixit:
>Louise Bremner wrote:
>> Wasn't that the reason for "beating the bounds"? That's probably one of
>> those common-law thingies that are no longer valid now that Britain has
>> joined the EU. Like marriages, drat it.

>Can you show me a reference to that? It would be a lttle strange 
>Australia and the USA had British common law, but Britain no longer has 
>British common law.

Well, there's English Common Law and Scottish Common Law and ....

Common Law still exists in the UK, but some of it has extinguished
by EU statutes.

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