Monday, September 13, 2004

Google Search: napoleonic code type of legal system as is used in Scandinavia too

and not the common-law legal system Google Search: adversial system type legal

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Google Search: common-law legal system

Common law: "The common law originally developed under the auspices of the adversarial system in historical England from judicial decisions that were based in tradition, custom, and precedent. The form of reasoning used in common law is known as casuistry or case-based reasoning. Common law may be unwritten or written in statutes or codes.

The common law, as applied in civil cases (as distinct from criminal cases), was devised as a means of compensating someone for wrongful acts known as torts, including both intentional torts and torts caused by negligence and as developing the body of law recognizing and regulating contracts.

Today common law is generally thought of as applying only to civil disputes; originally it encompassed the criminal law before criminal codes were adopted in most common law jurisdictions in the late 19th century.
The type of procedure practiced in common law courts is known as the adversarial system; this is also a development of the common law."

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