Words such as estate , chattel , lease , executor, tenant, and word phrases such as ad hoc , de facto , de jure , bona fide , inter alia , and ultra vires, remain in current use in legal writing though they are borrowed. The legal language and legal tradition changed with waves of conquerors over the centuries. Roman Britain beginning in AD 43, followed Roman legal tradition, and its legal language was Latin. Following the Roman departure from Britain circa 410 and the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, the dominant tradition was Anglo-Saxon law, which was discussed in the Germanic vernacular Old English. It was written in Old English since circa 600, beginning with the Law of Aethelberht. After the Norman invasion of England in 1066, Anglo-Norman French became the official language of legal proceedings in England for a period of nearly 300 years until the Pleadi...
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