Common law refers to law made when judges decide cases and then follow those decisions in later cases. law made by legislatures in the form of statutes. law that is the same or similar in all the states. the legal systems of france, germany, and italy.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t