POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roman Law, Public Law, Concurrent Jurisdiction

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3130
• Professor: Ajay Sharma

Document Summary

Common law: uk, canada, us, number of other former british colonies. Civil law: continental europe, asia, quebec and scotland (partly). Most widely used system in the world. 600 a. d. emperor justinian compiles a written comprehensive code to apply to entire roman. 1400s renaissance scholars rediscovered and started to disseminate this roman law. Influenced by natural law philosophy that emphasized legal codes based on reason not on local religious customs of the time. After the french revolution napoleon developed a legal code for france called the napoleonic. Civil law system based on written codes. Judges make decisions based on those codes (previous decisions are not considered an authoritative source) Quebec uses civil law system to deal with disputes between individuals (private law, civil law). i(cid:374) (cid:1005)866 ci(cid:448)il code of que(cid:271)e(cid:272) (cid:272)a(cid:373)e i(cid:374)to fo(cid:396)(cid:272)e (cid:373)odeled o(cid:374) napol o(cid:374)(cid:859)s code. 1100s, ki(cid:374)g(cid:859)s cou(cid:396)t applies co(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) custo(cid:373)s of the e(cid:374)ti(cid:396)e eal(cid:373).