 Its mirror was the Recognition Doctrine, which held that private property rights were presumed to be extinguished in the absence of explicit recognition.In 1608, the same year in which the Doctrine of Continuity emerged, Edward Coke delivered a famous dictum in "Calvin's Case" (1608) that the laws of all non-Christians would be abrogated upon their conquest.Coke's view was not put into practice, but was rejected by Lord Mansfield in 1774.