As she put it in The Common Reader , "It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote ;"

就像她在《致普通读者》一书中所表达的那样，“尽管可以毫无疑问的说，没有任何法律被指定出来，也没有任何高楼大厦被建立起来是因为乔叟说了什么或者写了什么；

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As she put it in The common Reader, "it is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote;"

正如她在《普通读者》中所说，“我们完全可以说，乔叟所说或者所写的东西并没有给人们形成任何的定规，也没有强加给人们什么样的规则；

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Pate said the Freemen want a "guarantee of free passage" for one or two of their members to leave the compound and help set up a "common law grand jury" to determine if they have broken any laws.

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If you come from another American state, or from another country that practises English-style common law (in which precedents set by judges are all-important), it is a matter of mugging up and passing the New York bar exam.

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