All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil ( delictual ) law operated in a highly developed and consistent manner ( except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ ).

His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Most archaeologists estimate that the earliest settlers arrived in outrigger canoes from southern Borneo in successive waves throughout the period between 350 BCE and 550 CE, making Madagascar one of the last major landmasses on Earth to be settled by humans.

The earliest settlers, termed Archaic or Ortoiroid, are believed to have settled Trinidad and Tobago from northeastern South America around 4000 BC.

According to the earliest source to the Faroe Islands, Færeyinga Saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway settled in the islands about the end of the 9th century.

Although the earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897, the four largest populations of Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants live in Brazil, the United States, Canada and Peru.

Although the earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897, the four largest populations of Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants live in Brazil, the United States, Canada and Peru.

Image of the Santa Cruz dolmen, burial place of chieftains of the Eastern Asturian area since Megalithic times. Although the earliest evidence of Christian worship in Asturias date from the 5th century, evangelisation did not make any substantial progress until the middle of the 6th century, when hermits like Santo Turibius of Liébana and monks of the Saint Fructuoso order gradually settled in the lands of the Cantabrian mountains and began preaching the Christian doctrine to the locals.

French Guiana was first settled by the French in 1604, although its earliest settlements were abandoned in the face of American Indian hostility and tropical diseases.

The Danish Vikings were most active in Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy where they raided, conquered and settled ( their earliest settlements included sites in the Danelaw, Ireland and Normandy ).

The earliest narrative source which mentions Harald, Íslendingabók claims that Iceland was settled during his lifetime.

The Spanish colonial government settled the earliest group of Acadian exiles west of New Orleans, in what is now south-central Louisiana — an area known at the time as Attakapas, and later the center of the Acadiana region.

Some records have it as early as 1814, but the earliest settler of no dispute is James K. Benson, who settled in the Flat in 1815, and built the first house ever erected in Butler County.

Among the earliest settlers of New Kent County was Nicholas Gentry, who settled in New Kent in 1684.

The earliest settlers, Luke Kelly, his family and May Keyser, settled at Hanging Rock, along the Ohio River 1n 1796.

After the Lewis and Clark Expedition of the early 19th century, white settlers came to the area, many from Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas ; the earliest pioneers appeared to have settled as early as 1818, and the town of Waynesville was designated the county seat by the Missouri Legislature in 1833.

The earliest inhabitants were a band of river pirates, who settled here after being driven off of Spanish soil west of the Mississippi River.

The earliest person reported to have settled on the site was James Lochard, a Revolutionary War soldier, who arrived in 1810 and died about 1815.

* Cook's Prairie in the northeastern part of the township and extending into southwest Eckford Township was one of the earliest areas to be settled in the township.

Nessel Township was organized in 1870, bears the name of its earliest pioneer farmer, Robert Nessel, who was born in Germany, 1834, came to the United States in 1847 and to Minnesota in 1854, and settled here in 1856.

The earliest the Owatonna area was settled was in 1854 and platted in September 1855, but it was incorporated as a town August 9, 1858, then as a city on February 23, 1865.

Although not being laid out as a town until 1872, the Downing area was one of the earliest settled areas of Schuyler county, with Henry Downing building a home and claiming land a few miles south of the area around 1837.

Dutch Hollow — Formerly a wooded valley at the base of Nye Hill, it became one of the earliest settled parts of Wisner, and many of its oldest houses can be found here.

The earliest settlers, in the early 1620s settled in Bath, a part of the town annexed to Rensselaer in 1902.

Among his earliest jobs, however, was the task of " dream up some new characters "-these resulted in the line-up of More Fun # 73, and took the form of Aquaman, Green Arrow and Johnny Quick.

The band's earliest incarnation consisted of guitarist and vocalist Jon Spencer, guitarist and occasional vocalist Julia Cafritz and drummer John Hammill, though this line-up would be subject to both change and expansion in later years.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

The earliest design ( dubbed kapala in Polish, more properly called " kapsel legitymacyjny " or " ID cap ") consisted of a tin-made 30 × 50 mm rectangular frame and a rectangular cap fitting into the frame.

The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental ; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures.

The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing-the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in Sumer, some dating back to 2600 BC.

The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing-the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in temple rooms in Sumer, some dating back to 2600 BC.

Some of the earliest origins of minestrone soup pre-date the expansion of the Latin tribes of Rome into what became the Roman Republic and later Roman Empire, when the local diet was " vegetarian by necessity " and consisted mostly of vegetables, such as onions, lentils, cabbage, garlic, fava beans, mushrooms, carrots, asparagus, and turnips.

The earliest Christian church consisted of Jews in the first century who had known Jesus Christ and heard his teachings.

The earliest signs were often not painted but consisted, for example, of paraphernalia connected with the brewing process such as bunches of hops or brewing implements, which were suspended above the door of the pub.

The earliest way of writing qi consisted of three wavy lines, used to represent one's breath seen on a cold day.

* The earliest translation in Hungarian consisted of a few stanzas taken from the French version of Nicolas, by Béla Erődi in 1919-20.

According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the earliest clothing likely consisted of fur, leather, leaves, or grass that were draped, wrapped, or tied around the body.

The earliest versions of the cotton gin consisted of a single roller made of iron or wood and a flat piece of stone or wood.

The Clark County administration consisted of various officers and a 3 man board of commissioners in its earliest days.

The earliest businesses consisted of a sawmill, a general store, and churches.

In the earliest days, osechi consisted only of nimono, boiled vegetables with soy sauce and sugar or mirin.

The earliest episodes consisted of introducing the troubled characters and did not show any of the supernatural elements that later made the show a hit.

The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and a cello, a grouping which had grown out of the Baroque trio sonata, while later string trios more commonly are scored for violin, viola, and cello ( Tilmouth and Smallman 2001 ).

The earliest model, the 1924 MG 14 / 28 consisted of a new sporting body on a Morris Oxford chassis.

The earliest crystal receivers did not have a tuned circuit at all, and just consisted of a crystal detector connected between the antenna and ground, with an earphone across it.

In antiquity, the earliest foot supports consisted of riders placing their feet under a girth or using a simple toe loop.

It consisted of " Late Last Night ", four re-arranged and re-recorded tracks from the New Zealand / Australian Mental Notes LP, three new songs, and a new version of one of the earliest Judd – Finn compositions, " 129 ", retitled " Matinee Idyll ( 129 )".

The earliest instant camera, which consisted of a camera and portable darkroom in a single compartment, was invented in 1923 by Samuel Shlafrock.

The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental ; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures.

Imagery on the earliest denarii usually consisted of the bust of Roma on the obverse, and a deity driving a biga or quadriga on the reverse.