ENV 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roman Law
15 Apr 2016
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Canada divided into two main legal systems: common law (british, civil law (french) 1759, feel under the british common law (except for quebec) Common law approach: to scrutinize the judgments of previous cases and construct general principles to apply to the case at hand. Judges create law indirectly by ruling on cases. Civil law system: systematically collection of articles, arranged by subject matter, in a specific order. Based on written norms; comes from roman law. ), who wrote a book of rules and laws called the corpus juris. Napoleon code established all the rules of the land. 1864-1867 wrote a constitution: british north american act (bna act) Federal system: bna act heart of canadian law, main code, remains the same. Led by prime minister + members of parliament. Led by premier + members of provincial parliament. Include bna act of 1867 + canadian charter of rights and freedoms. The canadian charter of rights and freedoms (1982):
