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" The worldview that birthed the English common law tradition based its jurisprudence on universal principles of the moral law, including the Ten Commandments, and natural law, the law as written on men’s hearts by their creator, that, if followed, is consistent with the natural order of the world. Numerous jurisprudential principles still extant in the practice of law today find their origins in biblical principles.
A defense attorney may well argue the principle of lex talionis (an eye for eye, a tooth for a tooth) as restitution exceeding the nature of an act. Similarly, punitive damages find their historical root in the Mosaic code of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. Even the burgeoning field of alternate dispute resolution (ADR) has recognizable roots in the wise counsel Moses received from his father-in-law Jethro in Exodus 18:13-26 and in Jesus’ teaching, in the eighteenth chapter of Matthew’s gospel, concerning how the church can help people solve problems between themselves. "