In the eighteenth century, though perhaps not wholly legitimized until the early nineteenth, there was a wholesale shift of litigation from trespass to case.

• 到了十八世纪，（当事人选取的）诉讼形式大规模地从“侵害之诉”向“案例之诉”转变，当然，在十九世纪的初叶之前，这种选择也许并未完全被法律所认可（或许并未完全合法化）。