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"Equity gave new rights and new remedies". Explain and illustrate this statement as fully as possible, showing how equitable remedies contributed to the development of new interests in land. The common law has been romantically and mistakenly described as the law of the common people of England. In fact, it could be argued that the common law was a product of a particular struggle for political power. Before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, a unitary, national legal system did not actually exist. The common law was developed after the Norman Conquest through the "itinerant justices" travelling around the country in order to sort out disputes by selecting the best local customs and making them the basis of the law of England. Civil actions in these courts had to be started by a writ, which set out the cause of the action or the grounds for the claim made, and...

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