Chapter 1: Common Law and Civil Law

Coke

Coke

________ said,"Law is the perfection of reason, which commands what is useful and necessary and prohibits the contrary.

Procedure

________ dominates the common law, and in the cracks and joints of the procedural machine we can find rules of substantive law.

France

The codifications of private law in ________ (1804), Germany (1900), and other Continental countries represent broad and sudden substantive changes, particularly a nationalizing decentralization of the common heritage derived from Roman and canon (church) law.

jury system

The ________ is thought to be democratic, but, in fact, it is far older than European democracy.

New York

________ abolished the forms of action in 1848 when it adopted the Field Code of Civil Procedure, which authorized one complaint for all civil actions.

Sir Edward Coke

________ and Sir William Blackstone believe that the common law was the law of reason.

common law

All the English-speaking countries of the world have adopted the__________, and there is no common law country that has succeeded in translating the common law into another language.

middle ages

The roots of the common law lie in the _____________.

writ system

The _____________ exemplifies the interweaving of substance and procedure.

reason

Sir Edward Coke and Sir William Blackstone believe that the common law was the law of _____________.