Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it changed. 1.________ is closely connected to the development of civilizations and is set in the wider context of social history. Among certain 2.________ and historians of legal process it has been seen as the recording of the evolution of 3..________ and the technical explanation of how these laws have evolved with the view of better understanding the origins of various 4.________, some consider it a branch of intellectual history. The twentieth century historians have viewed legal history in a more contextualized manner more in line with the thinking of social 5.________ . They have looked at legal 6.________ as complex systems of rules, players and symbols and saw these elements interact with society to change, adapt, resist or promote certain aspects of 7.________. Such legal historians have tended to analyze case histories from the parameters of social science inquiry, using statistical methods, analyzing class distinctions among 8.________, petitioners and other players in various legal processes. By analyzing case 9.________, transaction costs, number of settled cases they began an analysis of legal institutions, practices, procedures and briefs that gave us a more complex picture of law and society than the study of jurisprudence, 10.________ and civil codes can achieve.