 Burchard spent the years 1023 to 1025 promulgating "Leges et Statuta Familiae S. Petri Wormatiensis", a collection of religious laws he endorsed as just and hoped to have officially approbated.Although the Romans first came to Britain in 55 BC, Roman Law has had negligible influence on English common law.Latin legal phrases are used in English only because Latin was the "lingua franca" of the Medieval era.