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    Common Law And Civil Law

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    At the global level international law is of great importance and the legal systems such as common law, civil law, customary law, and theocratic law exist in different countries across the world. There are about 196 sovereign states in the United Nations Organization and each of the states follows a legal system created by them or by an agreement in the form of regional treaties and other accords. Common law: A common law system according to Samii (2011, p. 112) is based on tradition, judge made

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    Before I started compare between common law and civil law I want to describe each one of them. Common law focuses in the old laws and takes it as source for any new for any new case and the basic for this law is UK law system. On the other hand, Civil law is about organizing the relation between the people in the same society and it is focusing in public law. However, I am going to compare between common law and civil law in legal system, the rule of judges, constitution, and jury of opinion, historical

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    Department of Law Bahria University Islamabad Assignment on Analysis of comparison of common law system and existing Pakistani laws Submitted By Muhammad Arslan Enrolment Number 01-177162-016 Submitted to Sir Mahmood Ahmad Shaikh Table of Contents Sr. No Topics Page No 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. Comparison of common law system and the existing Pakistani laws 4. Analysis 5. Conclusion 6. References Analysis of Comparison of Common Law System

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    systems which is common law and civil law. There are around 80 countries which recognize the common law system. The civil law system applies to about 150 countries. The primary importance in a common law country is case law. Civil law countries have predominate codified statutes. A fundamental factor of international business is the legal system. The market attractiveness of a country can be affected by variances in legal systems. Daily business practices are regulated by the laws of that particular

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    The rule of law in civil and common law traditions In both the common and civil law traditions the ordinary function of a court is adjudicative. Courts make findings on disputed questions of fact, identify and apply the relevant law to the facts as agreed by the parties or found by the court, consider the legal consequences and award appropriate remedies. Thus, a state that adheres to the principle of ‘rule of law’ provides legal certainty to it citizens, to plan their lives with less uncertainty

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    but with a shrinking amount of limited sovereignty. Some claim this is the federal common law interpretation’s failure and that a constitutional approach is necessary to solve the problems with tribal jurisdiction. These arguments hope that clarity and defined parameters of jurisdiction will establish a new concrete definition of tribal jurisdiction. Other sources just propose to continue to follow the common law understanding of tribal jurisdiction with an understanding that tribes have inherent

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    The English common law system is obliged to comply with the rights and obligations under the Human Rights Act Convention. Even though they are not bound by it has been advised by the House of Lords to harmonise or comply with the Conventions, on a equivalent basis which is “no more, but certainly no less”. The Convention does not guarantee damages for violations that have occurred between private parties, it only protects them against the public authorities, thus only binding states. Generally the

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    conduct which is known as the law. The whole purpose of the Criminal Justice System is to deliver justice for everyone and this is done by convicting and punishing the guilty and also to help them to stop offending while also protecting the innocent (Garside 2008). In different jurisdictions there are even crimes with the same name that have different definitions. In this essay, England and Wales Criminal Justice System will be looked at which is formally known as Common Law, Also France’s Criminal Justice

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    THE REASONING OF COMMON LAW The English Law is based on Common Law also known as Case Law,it arises when new decisions are made by Judges in Courts. Common Law tends to be instructive in nature, in case of Common Law,a Judge refers to a similar cases in the past and makes a decision after following other Judge’s reasonings and the principles applied on previous cases;In some instances a judgment passed by the Judge becomes the new law provided there are no existing statutes applicable;On the other

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    12th and 13th century, a survey was conducted on tradition, custom and law under the common law system of England. This survey originally developed as court decisions. In England, the equity laws are developed after the creation of the common law. The analysis based on development of justice and is now used in the royal courts. This gives us the story of the 1066 when the England was attacked and concluded that there is no common law system, but the local court system. It is called the power of traditional

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