William, among the other violent changes which he attempted and effected, had introduced the Norman law into England,[********] had ordered all the pleadings to be in that tongue, and had interwoven with the English jurisprudence all the maxims and principles which the Normans, more advanced in cultivation and naturally litigious, were accustomed to observe in the distribution of justice.
[** Madox, Hist.

of the Exch.p.

103.] [*** Bracton, lib.iii.cap.9, sect.

1; cap.

10, sect.