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1. Laws or written rules which are passed by Parliament and implemented by courts.
2. An official set of laws or regulations.
3. To come from something, to appear somewhere and then to develop into something.
4. What someone thinks about the meaning of a law or precedent?
5. Used or enforced in different ways.
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| code | codify | |
| civilize | ||
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1. Civil law is the most widespread legal system of the world.
2. Approximately 300 countries use civil law nowadays.
3. European continental law and civil law is the name of the same phenomenon.
4. “Corpus Juris Civilus” is a collection of laws and legal interpretations compiled in the times of the Roman Emperor Justinian I.
5. The date when the Body of Civil Law was compiled is known precisely.
6. Organizing the law into two written codes is the main feature of civil law system.
7. One of the main sources of civil law is custom.
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Common Law
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1. Why is common law called “English”?
2. Why are so many countries influenced by common law?
Common Law ( Anglo-Saxon legal family) is a type of legal system, often synonymous with “English common law”, which is the system of England and Wales in the UK. It is also in force in approximately 80 countries which were a part of or greatly influenced by the former British Empire. The English common law reflects Biblical influences as well as systems imposed by early conquerors including the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Normans.
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Some legal scholars attribute the formation of the English common law system to King Henry II (r. 1154-1189). Until the time of his reign, laws customary were administered locally. Henry II, having established the King’s court, designated that laws were “common” to the entire England.
The foundation of English common law is “legal precedent” – referred to as stare decisis (Lat ), meaning “to stand by things decided”. In the English common law system, court judges are bound in their decisions in large part by the rules and other doctrines developed by the judges of earlier English courts. These rules were supplemented or amended over time.
