How did civil law emerge and develop?

The formation and development of civil law legal system:

1, Germanic law and revived Roman law is the main historical source of civil law legal system (civil law system, Roman Germanic law system), but also the main factors of the law of the feudal countries of Western Europe. With the development of the capitalist commodity economy, trade exchanges in these countries, the trend of political unification, the law of each other will occur in many ways, at the same time, but also produce some **** the same form and characteristics. This makes the Roman-Germanic legal system in the nascent stage and embryonic state.

2, in the victory of the bourgeois revolution, many countries in western Europe, such as France, Germany, Italy and other countries after the establishment and consolidation of the capitalist system, to adapt to the development of the capitalist economy, politics, culture, as well as these countries interact with each other, their legal system of the connection between each other and **** with the characteristics of the development of the system also gained further, and so the emergence of the Romano-Germanic legal system. First in France, the establishment of the first base of the Romano-Germanic legal system, followed by the establishment of a second base in Germany, the two large Western European countries have developed a series of codes, the formation of a complete legal system, the two countries of the code and the legal system is closely linked with each other, with many *** with the same characteristics.

3. Along with the global development of capitalism in the l8th and l9th centuries, not only in European countries but also in many countries and places in Asia, the United States and Africa, the legislation and codification movement came into being and continued to develop. They were y influenced by France and Germany, so the Romano-Germanic legal system (civil law legal system) became the world's largest legal system.