Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu

COMMON LAW У CABPEMEHOM СВЕТУ

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sense of constitutional conventions and the pattern of public behaviour to many parts of the world where the basic legal System is not the common law. The Spanish law of British Guiana, the Roman-Dutch law of South Africa and Ceylon, the French law in Quebec and Maurititius are very much influenced by the common law concepts. It is a fact, the author point out, that the expérience in many civil law Systems in which judicial décisions hâve been reported that despite ail constitutional prohibitions, despite perhaps the desires and intentions of the judges themselves, judicial décisions by the mere fact of being reported hâve made law and are achieving growing authority. Finally, the author indicates the importance of the comparative law in study of the common law and civil law in various parts of the world and in caparison between the common law and the civil law. This latter comparison has had an obvious and elementary appeal that might well be called age-old, though the différences hâve been much exaggerated.