Oh dear: Boy raped teacher

[WageSlave1]

stems back to the mediaevel origins of the modern legal system

Lucifer, should the contracting ever run out of steam, I think a very lucrative career in TV quiz shows beckons.

[hattra]

Even the Roman empire struggled on for a few centuries after it contracted a fatal malaise

Closer to a thousand years - wasn't the Fall of Constantinople (1453) the end of the Eastern Empire?

[Lucifer Box]

I think a very lucrative career in TV quiz shows beckons

I understand Countdown is looking for a new host

[hattra]

stems back to the mediaevel origins of the modern legal system

1066 to be precise - William the B@stard virtually eliminated the Anglo-Saxon legal code (mixture of Roman, Norse and Saxon - with different laws in different parts of the Country) and introduced his own unified system. Some bits of the older system survived until relatively recently, but most were completely replaced. The Viking tradition of post-geniture (leaving the whole property to the youngest son) survived in Kent until the early 1800's