#common law

• Affidavit — A written statement of facts, signed voluntarily by a declarant (deponent) and officially witnessed or certified by an authorized legal officer, such as a notary public; used as evidence in Common Law systems.
• Anglo-Saxon — Relating to the Angles and Saxons, the Germanic tribes that colonized Britain in the 5th century AD, or to the civilization, language (Old English), and kingdoms founded by them. In a modern and extended sense, this well-defined structural descriptor denotes the peoples, languages, cultures, or legislative and economic systems specific to the contemporary Anglophone world (especially Great Britain, the USA, Canada, and Australia).
• Assizes — A historical term used in medieval English and French law (originating from the phrase 'the assizes') to denote periodic courts, sessions of royal tribunals, or decrees and edicts issued by sovereigns to regulate the prices, weights, and measures of consumer goods (such as the famous 'Assize of Bread and Ale'). In the context of legal databases, the term functions as a technical noun describing the institutional evolution of jury courts in the Common Law system.