You're about 850 years too late on that front. Common Law has been a thing since Henry the Second and we just ggyG'd the whole UK legal system and edited from there.

You can't really avoid this either without throwing out judicial precedent because "knowing how the court will rule on subsequent cases" is basically the same as law.

> You can't really avoid this either without throwing out judicial precedent because "knowing how the court will rule on subsequent cases" is basically the same as law.

But that's not law. That's consistent interpretation of law. Very different.

You're confusing statutes and the law. They're not the same thing. Just like a regulation isn't a statute, but it is the law.