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| newfound lands were outside of the realm of England and, therefore, outside the jurisdiction of the common law and ordinary prerogative" because "[u]nlike Roman law, common law possessed no doctrines for the acquisition of sovereignty over territory because the doctrine of tenures held that no land subject to the common law could be outside a state of sovereignty. Moreover, with so many GIs entering college, the demand for professors was tremendous, and universities not only became reluctant to demand that the right to fire be included in contracts, they began incorporating the doctrine of tenure into their by-laws. |
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