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Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:44:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva wrote:
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Could you clarify what “common law” is? Especially if it is a deliberately
vague concept or not.
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More on defining the term “common law,” see:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Hours of reading would result from following the various links. Probably
worth it too!
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A very interesting link - thank you, Richard. I shall use it for future
reference.
After some really superficial reading, I can now at least pretend to know why
the term “common law” is so... uncommon to me: according to one of the earlier
links, it is mostly used in a context of adversarial system, which is not the
one in use in my country (inquisitorial system, or “Roman-Napoleonic” being our
standard code of laws). If I were a lawyer, I’d know that the Civil Code (read,
“civil law”) is what’s used around here :-)
Oh well - live and learn!...
Pedro
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