The amusing thing is that most states in the USA actually incorporate all English law, usually prior to about 1600. So all those English statutes from say, 1100

The amusing thing is that most states in the USA actually incorporate all English law, usually prior to about 1600. So all those English statutes from say, 1100, like the Magna Carta, are still on the law books in the USA. Here is Illinois: (5 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 801) Sec. 1. That the common law of England, so far as the same is applicable and of a general nature, and all statutes or acts of the British parliament made in aid of, and to supply the defects of the common law, prior to the fourth year of James the First, excepting the second section of the sixth chapter of 43d Elizabeth, the eighth chapter of 13th Elizabeth, and ninth chapter of 37th Henry Eighth, and which are of a general nature and not local to that kingdom, shall be the rule of decision, and shall be considered as of full force until repealed by legislative authority.