Common law – the system of law that emerged in England begin- ning in the Middle Ages and is based on case law and precedent rather than codified law. Corpus ...

A common law system is less prescriptive than a civil law system. A government may therefore wish to enshrine protections of its citizens in specific ...

Another important difference between common law and civil law exists in the methods of gathering evidence in the pre-trial stage. In common law, the pre ...

The differences within the Civil Law group are so con- siderable that it is not easy to find any' characteristics which they might have in common when they are ...

In common law cases, judges have more of a guiding role in the trial, providing instruction to the jury at the end of the hearing for it to make its decision.

And while decisions of the higher courts in a civil law jurisdiction may not have the binding force of law in succeeding cases (as they do in a common law ...

Civil law, on the contrary, always recognised the general obligation not to act unreasonably in situations not governed by contract.

Wilts and testaments - In civil law, certain beneficiaries cannot be cut out of the estate (e.g. children according to the French code). In common law, each ...

Statutes in common law systems, on the other hand, address only selective areas of the law, but they normally cover these areas in depth.

One of the main differences between the civil law and common law systems is the binding force of precedents. While the courts in the civil law system have as ...