CRM 4311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socialist Law, Coutume, Quebec Act
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Introduction to the study of law (dcc 2117) Outline: mixed jurisdictions: introduction, civil law, common law, legal traditions in quebec, civil law and common law: comparison, harmonization. A legal system that stems from more than one legal tradition is called mixed legal system (e. g. the legal system in morocco or egypt derives from both the civil law tradition and islamic law). A legal system is the set of the legal institutions, rules and procedures regulating a given society. There are many legal traditions: e. g. civil law, common law, islamic law, socialist law, etc. Do you think canada is a mixed jurisdiction: yes because we have more than one legal tradition: civil law, mainly applied in. Quebec, and common law: civil law traditions prevail in: germany, france, netherlands, most of continental. Civil law can be defined as the legal tradition which has its roots in the compilation of. Roman law (corpus juris civilis)(code of justinian) prepared between 528 and 534 ad.