Our topic is the impact of English common law on American law. Our thesis is that the impact was considerable, mutual, and long-running; also that it will be possible to demonstrate the connectedness of Anglo and American variants chiefly by using bibliographic methods. For this purpose, we shall make use of the collections of the Bounds Law Library of the University of Alabama—though the collections of many well-established state law schools would equally suffice. In addition, we can call upon the vast amount of bibliographic information available online through WorldCat and related databases.