Characteristics of civil law system

1. Civil law system is mainly written law, and usually does not recognize the status of case law (but there are exceptions, such as French administrative law recognizes case law);

2. It has a long tradition of compilation;

3. Advocating rationalism in legal theory, and tending to build a conceptual system that attaches importance to logic and abstraction;

4. In judicial trials, judges are traditionally required to conduct trials in strict accordance with the law, and syllogism is the most important way of reasoning.

However, a code cannot be all-inclusive and complete. From this point of view, it is not as flexible as the common law in perfecting and developing the law. From the historical development, the civil law system has also experienced the process from case law to code law. This indicates the convergence and integration of the two legal systems in the future.