Kinesiology 4473A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corpus Juris Civilis, Lexisnexis, Napoleonic Code

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 4473A/B
• Professor: Mac Ross

Document Summary

Official: federal court reports (fc), supreme court reports (sc) Semi-official (few currently printed): ontario reports (or) Cases: civil/private law cases at trial, plaintiff appears first, defendant second, civil/private law cases at appeal, appellant appears first, respondent second, can be identified by count, criminal cases at trial, crown/state appears first as r . Law of 12 tables (450-499 bc) -roman republic, roman empire: roman law is relevant in quebec. Corpus juris civilis (529-534 ce) -emperor justinian ii byzantine empire. Norman conquest of england -1066 ce -willian the conqueror -centralized royal courts. Anglo-saxon law -600s-1000s -written law and folk-right. Fragmentation of the norman courts -c. 1100-1200-king"s bench, common pleas, and. 1774: quebec act *important: re-establishes french civil law code while maintaining criminal law of england, occurred essentially because canadian system granted freedom of religion (catholic churches were able to stay) 1866: civil code of lower canada -georges etienne-cartier: napoleonic code of france as a guide.