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HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE: A VIEW FROM THE RYDER SOURCES John H. Langbein* The main work of a legal system is deciding matters of past fact. Blackstone remarked that "experience will abundantly show,