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Hánová Katrin
October 2010

Content
§Basic characters
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§History
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§Subgroups
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§World legal systems
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Civil law
branch of private law (Občanské právo in Czech)
system of law
(built on Roman law)
= Continental law

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•Primary source of law:Legal code (compendium of statutes and legislations)
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•Legislators             Law codes
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•Judicial independence:High, separate from executive and legislative branches of government

History
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•Major inspiration is Roman law
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•Codes produced in the 7th century under direction of the Roman Emperor Justinian
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•Model oh the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church

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Subgroups
•Romanistic(France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Quebec, Louisiana, Italy, Spain…)
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•Germanic (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Brazil, Portugal, Turkey, Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan)
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•Scandinavian (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden)
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•Chinese (except Hong Kong)

Legal systems of the world
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Civil law
Common law
Shariah
Bijuridical
Customary law

Vocabulary
•Canon law
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•Case law
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•Code
Codified
Compendium
Legislator

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Sources:
Marta Chromá: New introduction to Legal English I.
Powel: Law Today
www.wikipedia.org
www.iuridictum.pecina.cz