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Mostly got that from the reading for my classes last year. We read British cases in Criminal Law (stranded sailors chose and shot a cabin boy in the head and ate him instead of drawing lots and eating him, this was deemed murderous), and Property Law (something about chasing foxes), and Contracts (something about a mill driveshaft, early consiquential damages case). All those cases are still cited, and I've had a few professors go on long winded rants about the history of the British and American legal traditions.
Didn't read any maritime law cases until this semester and have never heard it referenced as a source of American law.
Read a few French cases when I did a semester at Loyola New Orleans. Fun stuff.
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