Posted by Sir Edward Coke
on 4/9/2009, 7:03 am
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You state in your website that our legal system is “rooted in the common law of ancient Rome”. This is seriously wrong.
First, Rome had no “common law”. That concept was invented in England, centuries after the Roman Empire dissolved.
Second, the roots of our legal system are in the legal traditions of the Germanic tribes, in particular, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who brought their systems to England with them and from which the common law system evolved.
The Continental legal systems (Germany, France, Spain, etc.) are rooted in the Roman Code of Justinian (not Roman common law), but those legal systems that came from the English system, including the U.S. system, are not.
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