Chapter 2: The Civil Law

Continental Lawyers

________ claim that the interpretation is entitled to respect as law only if different judges converge on a single interpretation over time.

Brahmans instruct

The learned ones- whether the rabbis, the bishops, the Ulama in Islam, or the ________ the people on the meaning of the law revealed by God.

Precedents

________ were not merely evidence of the law but the law itself.

German Civil Code

The ________ represents the culmination of a century of academic reflection on the foundations of private law and the elaboration of basic concepts of liability.

It is doubtful that the rule of the common law would have ever crystallized without the influence of great writers and system

atizers like Edward Coke and William Blackstone

Statute

states one provision after another. You need not master the whole of the statute book in order to understand the parts.

code

The word ________ is used often to describe federal statutes, such as the Internal Revenue Code, the Federal Codes of Criminal and Civil Procedure, and the Federal Criminal Code.

monistic

A system that relied solely either on statutory law or on judicial-created case law would be ____________.

diadic

A system is ___________ if it recognizes one interpreter of the law.

triadic

A system is ____________ if it recognizes both courts and scholars as interpreters of the authoritative words of the statute.