Question: What is the facts of the English Common Law?
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Basic principles of common law.
Common law adjudication.
In a common law jurisdiction several stages of research and analysis are required to determine "what the law is" in a given situation.
First, one must ascertain the facts.
Then, one must locate any relevant statutes and cases.
Then one must extract the principles, analogies and statements by various courts of what they consider important to determine how the next court is likely to rule on the facts of the present case.
Later decisions, and decisions of higher courts or legislatures carry more weight than earlier cases and those of lower courts.
Finally, one integrates all the lines drawn and reasons given, and determines "what the law is".
Then, one applies that law to the facts. 
The lyrics discuss a paranoid and alienated man who feels he is stressed by his urban surroundings.
These lyrics are of common theme for Talking Heads and categorize lead singer David Byrne's writing style.
The "rhythmical rant" in "Crosseyed and Painless"—"Facts are simple and facts are straight.
Facts are lazy and facts are late.
"—is influenced by old school rap, specifically Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" given to Byrne by Frantz.
The singer is filled with doubt and isn't even sure he can believe facts.
By the end of the song, he expresses his resentment of facts: "Facts don't do what I want them to do / Facts just twist the truth around."
British Virgin Islands tort law is almost entirely based upon English common law. 
The South African law of evidence forms part of the adjectival or procedural law of that country.
It is based on English common law.
There is no all-embracing statute governing the South African law of evidence: Various statutes govern various aspects of it, but the common law is the main source.
The Constitution also features prominently.
All types of legal procedure look to the law of evidence to govern which facts they may receive, and how: civil and criminal trials, inquests, extraditions, commissions of inquiry, etc.
The law of evidence overlaps with other branches of procedural and substantive law.
It is not vital, in the case of other branches, to decide in which branch a particular rule falls, but with evidence it can be vital, as will be understood later, when we consider the impact of English law on the South African system. 
Jurisprudence is the study and theory of law.
Scholars in jurisprudence, also known as legal theorists (including legal philosophers and social theorists of law), hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions.
Modern jurisprudence began in the 18th century and was focused on the first principles of the natural law, civil law, and the law of nations.
General jurisprudence can be broken into categories both by the type of question scholars seek to answer and by the theories of jurisprudence, or schools of thought, regarding how those questions are best answered.
Contemporary philosophy of law, which deals with general jurisprudence, addresses problems in two rough groups:  (1.)
Problems internal to law and legal systems as such.
(2.)
Problems of law as a particular social institution as it relates to the larger political and social situation in which it exists.
Answers to these questions come from four primary schools of thought in general jurisprudence: Natural law is the idea that there are rational objective limits to the power of legislative rulers.
The foundations of law are accessible through human reason and it is from these laws of nature that human-created laws gain whatever force they have.
Legal positivism, by contrast to natural law, holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality and that the force of law comes from some basic social facts.
Legal positivists differ on what those facts are.
Legal realism is a third theory of jurisprudence which argues that the real world practice of law is what determines what law is; the law has the force that it does because of what legislators, judges, and executives do with it.
Similar approaches have been developed in many different ways in sociology of law.
Critical legal studies is a younger theory of jurisprudence that has developed since the 1970s.
It is primarily a negative thesis that holds that the law is largely contradictory, and can be best analyzed as an expression of the policy goals of the dominant social group.
Also of note is the work of the contemporary Philosopher of Law Ronald Dworkin who has advocated a constructivist theory of jurisprudence that can be characterized as a middle path between natural law theories and positivist theories of general jurisprudence.
A further relatively new field is known as therapeutic jurisprudence, concerned with the impact of legal processes on wellbeing and mental health.
The English term is based on the Latin word "jurisprudentia": "juris" is the genitive form of "jus" meaning "law", and "prudentia" means "prudence" (also: discretion, foresight, forethought, circumspection; refers to the exercise of good judgment, common sense, and even caution, especially in the conduct of practical matters).
The word is first attested in English in 1628, at a time when the word "prudence" had the now obsolete meaning of "knowledge of or skill in a matter".
The word may have come via the French "jurisprudence", which is attested earlier.