Mixed jurisdictions worldwide : the third legal family / Vernon Valentine Palmer.
2001
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Palmer, Vernon V.
Title
Mixed jurisdictions worldwide : the third legal family / Vernon Valentine Palmer.
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Call Number
Comp 300 P182 2001
ISBN
052178154X
Description
xvi, 496 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50381073
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Third legal family
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Pt. I
Introduction and Comparative Overview
1
1A descriptive and comparative overview
17
I Upon an invisible foundation: the claims of culture of the civil-law sphere
17
II The cultural voices of judge and jurist: purists, pragmatists and pollutionists
31
III The system builders and their edifice
35
IV The linguistic factor: the demands of dualism
41
V The place of precedent in legal reasoning and in the scheme of legal sources
44
VI The penetration of common law - pattern and process
53
VII "Original law" - the process of creating autonomous law
59
VIII The broad assimilation of Anglo-American procedure and evidence
62
IX Commercial law: the role of the dominant economy
66
Pt. II
The Comparative Evidence
81
2The Republic of South Africa
83
3Scotland
201
4Louisiana
257
5Quebec
329
6Puerto Rico
364
7The Philippines
425
8Israel
448
Conclusions
469
App. A
The mixed jurisdictions questionnaire and instructions
471
App. B
Other mixed jurisdictions of the world
479
Index
485