Discussion of civil law in the civil law system

Civil law legal system (CivilLawSystem), refers to the ancient Rome, especially in the early nineteenth century, the French Civil Code as the tradition of the emergence and development of the law of the general term. Because the scope of influence of this law system is mainly in the European continental countries, especially France and Germany, and the main form of legal expression are code, so also known as civil law system, Roman-German law system, code law system. Belonging to this system of law, in addition to the continental European countries, there were France, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries such as the colonial countries and for other reasons by its influence on the country. For example, in Africa, there are Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, etc.; in Asia, there are Japan, Thailand, Turkey, etc.; in addition, there is the province of Quebec in Canada, the United States of America, Louisiana, Scotland, England, etc..

Civil law legal system refers to the origin of the ancient Roman law and since the Middle Ages, in the continental countries of Western Europe on the basis of Roman law, the French Civil Code and the German Civil Code as a representative of the legal system and other countries and regions under the influence of this legal system of the legal system of the general term.

Geographic Distribution of Civil Law Legal Systems

The civil law legal system is one of the two major legal systems in the West, and its distribution is extremely wide, centering on the European continent and spreading over a vast area of the world. In exploring the scope of distribution of the civil law legal system, it is important to first clarify that this legal system is dominated by France and Germany.