However, the system turned overly systematised—overly rigid and inflexible. As a end result, as time went on, rising numbers of citizens petitioned the King to override the frequent law, and on the King’s behalf the Lord Chancellor gave judgment to do what was equitable in a case. From the time of Sir Thomas More, the primary lawyer to be appointed as Lord Chancellor, a systematic body of fairness grew up alongside the inflexible common law, and developed its personal Court of Chancery. At first, fairness was typically criticised as erratic, that it varied according to the length of the Chancellor’s …