Common-law systems share features derived from English law and practice.

Evidence

Although each country within the common-law legal family has its own legal institutions and bodies of law, common-law systems resemble each other in the general organization of their courts, in the rules of evidence and procedure they employ, and in the legal doctrines they have developed. Because these features of common-law systems derive from English law and legal practice, understanding of the origins of the common law in England is crucial to understanding other common-law systems. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 106

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• XREF: Establishes the comparative frame the course needs for contrasting common law with the civil-law tradition later in the syllabus. — connects to: Common-law judging habits now shape statutory interpretation too. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 117; The American legal system is common law yet distinctive for judicial policymaking — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 213; Common-law and civil-law thought differ as empiricism differs from rationalism. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 148 (+7 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 106