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| | BIGpedia - Common law - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
 | | 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. | | | In England, courts of law and equity were combined by the Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875, with equity being supreme in case of conflict. | | | 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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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Common_law
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| | civil law. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Nevertheless, civil law influenced the common law in the fields of admiralty law, testamentary law, and domestic relations, and civil law became part of the basis for the system of equity. | | | The civil law judge is bound by the provisions of the written law. | | | Civil law is based on written legal codes, a hallmark of the Roman legal system, in which disputes were settled by reference to a written legal code arrived at through legislation, edicts, and the like; common law is based on the precedents created by judicial decisions over time. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ci/civillaw.html
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| | August 1999 Administrative Law Newsletter |
| | The structure and jurisdiction of the courts in civil law countries correspond to the private and public law classification. | | | Private law issues are within the province of the "ordinary" or "judicial" courts while public law matters are addressed in separate "administrative" courts. | | | The growth of administrative law, both in common law and civil law countries, will require lawyers and judges in the United States to understand the practice of administrative law in the civil law system. |
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http://www.illinoisbar.org/Sections/adminlaw/8-99a.htm
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| | Civil law - Biocrawler definition:Civil law - Biocrawler |
| | Civil law (as opposed to "canon law") is the secular legal system of the national government when there is also a system of ecclesiastical courts governed by a church's laws in the same country. | | | Violations of civil law are considered to be torts or breaches of contract, rather than crimes. | | | Civil lawsuits sometimes occur as a result of criminal action, and such a lawsuit can be successful even when the defendant was found not guilty under criminal law. |
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http://www.biocrawler.com/biowiki/Civil_law
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| | ISDLS - Legal Systems 101 |
| | In the United States, judicial decisions do have the force of law and must be respected by the public, by lawyers and of course, by the courts themselves. | | | At the same time, not all law in civil law countries is codified in the sense that it is organized into a comprehensive organic, whole statement of the law on a given subject. | | | There are also uniform rules of civil and criminal procedure which, although typically adopted by the highest courts of the federal and state systems, are ultimately ratified by the legislatures. |
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http://www.isdls.org/legal_systems_101.html
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| | CIVIL LAW (LEGAL SYSTEM) ALTERNATE GENIE SEARCH ENGINE, INC |
| | Civil law is a legal_system derived from Roman_law and commonly used in Europe. | | | Case law (or, more properly, jurisprudence), plays a considerable role in virtually all civil law countries, even though the development of "judge-made law" through the rule of ''stare_decisis'' is not formally recognized. | | | The term "civil law" as applied to a legal tradition actually originates in English-speaking countries, where it was used to lump all non-English legal traditions together and contrast them to the English common law. |
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http://www.agseinc.com/civil_law_(legal_system)
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| | MEXonline.com Mexican Legal System Overview |
| | The U.S. common law system is based on the case law and statutory law of England and the American colonies before the American Revolution. | | | State law establishes the structure and function of the courts in each sate in Mexico and such laws should be consulted on a state by state basis. | | | When discussing the structure of the court system in Mexico, one must distinguish between courts of "ordinary jurisdiction" (including, civil, commercial and criminal jurisdiction) and administrative courts or courts of "special jurisdiction". |
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http://www.mexonline.com/lawreview.htm
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| | William Tetley, Mixed jurisdictions: common law <i>vs</i> civil law (codified and uncodified) (Part I) |
| | Civil law jurisdictions often have a statute law that is heavily influenced by the common law. | | | French civil law adopts Montesquieu's theory of separation of powers, whereby the function of the legislator is to legislate, and the function of the courts is to apply the law. | | | Civil law focuses on rights and obligations, while common law is oriented toward the jurisdiction of particular courts to grant the sought-after remedy ("remedies precede rights"). |
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http://www.unidroit.org/english/publications/review/articles/1999-3.htm
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| | These areas of the law are mostly within the jurisdiction of the states, and thus state courts are the primary source of common law. | | | Common law has no statutory basis; judges establish common law through written opinions that are binding on future decisions of lower courts in the same jurisdiction. | | | The point is that the belief that the law of the land in the United States is English common law "caselaw by jury" is false. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3616/systemlaw.html
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Legal system |
| | civil law system with Roman law origin; judicial review of legislative acts by the Constitutional Court; separate administrative and civil/penal supreme courts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction | | | civil law and criminal law based on Roman law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction | | | civil law system based on Swedish law; the president may request the Supreme Court to review laws; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2100.html
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| | Proposed Mediation Model for Civil Law Countries |
| | In a Civil Law System, a mediator should be an officer of the Court and thus serves as a magistrate. | | | In a Civil Law System, the same bureau that certifies mediators would be responsible for disciplining them and revoking certification of those who fail in their duties. | | | The Civil Law System allows for two types of ADR to function smoothly under the umbrella of the legal system. |
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http://adrr.com/camara/007.htm
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| | Louisiana and the Code Napoleon |
| | Even the Act of Congress of 1804 which provided for the retention of the civil law could be construed to require the eventual introduction of the common law, since it allowed for trial by jury and appeals to Federal courts. | | | The Civil Code of 1808 which they drafted was entitled a "Digest of the Civil Laws now in Force in the Territory of Orleans." This code was, however, not based on the Spanish civil law but on the Code Napoleon. | | | In this contest with the common law the civil law had the advantage of codification. |
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http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~pfd2009/bar_jrnl.html
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| | Not Yet Clear what legal system will be adopted in East Timor |
| | According to him, the civil law legal system must be adapted to accommodate adat (customary law) law. | | | The consideration of some people who state the civil law legal system which is applied in East Timor now is no good, the General Coordinator of Anmeftil said that such commentaries are untrue. | | | Therefore, he hopes that when the legal system is formulated, the government can take heed of this reality in developing the legal system. |
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http://www.etan.org/et2002c/august/01-10/24notyet.htm
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| | Civil Law and Legal Issues Topic Area |
| | For example, the News Room has lots of case filings, while our Litigation Issues Topic Area and Law Professionals Lounge are full of relevant materials. | | | The Court System: How it Works - What it Means, 39k, Zip | | | What the California Civil Code Says about Contracts, 16k |
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