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civil lawLegal system based on Roman law. It is one of the two main European legal systems, English (common) law being the other. Civil law may also mean the law relating to matters other than criminal law, such as contract and tort. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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John Chrysostom, and holds that the culmination of this growing hostility was the Justinian Code, something which Boswell tried to ignore and misinterpret. America's legal tradition is clearly traceable through the English Common Law and the Natural Law tradition back to the Justinian Code and before that to the biblical injunctions against homosexuality in the Mosaic book of Leviticus and St. |
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