Civil law Vs. Common law
...centuries, the rapidly developing trade and commerce in western Europe created a new social area outside the legal boundries of the acient Roman law and other Gemanic tribual laws. The growing overland trade called for a fair and practical disputes resolving system, thus, the general practices in the commercial world was widely applied in the legal world. On the other hand, the influence of the government was relatively small since the private property is viewed as sacred.. “Civil law” got its mane from its dealing with the rights of private citizens. In later times civil law became codified as droit coutumier or customary law that were local compilations of legal principles recognized as normative and the modern national codes began its stage in history. Among those, the French Civil Code of 1804 and the German Civil Code of 1896 were most famous and influential. When commercial rules transcended national boundaries as mentioned above, the Roman law trasdition was reisited in England by local legal community though. Common law, which is the legal system developed among Anglo-Saxon peoples, especially in England, can be traced back to the year 1066, when the Normans conquered England and set up a new kindom. Before then, there were only local customary law in the county and the name “common law” simply is stemmed from a thought that the princi...