American Law based on Roman law


	American Law based on Roman law

yamdablam

9-7-2007 3:51 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b11b0554-7d3c-4645-a02f-155645c340bf/B6334CB3-F57F-4B41-8E99-1892239C5E79/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roman_law&oldid=156085779" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roman_law&oldid=156085779" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roman_law&oldid=156085779">Even the English and North American <A title="Common law" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law">Common law</A> owes some debt to Roman law although Roman law exercised much less influence on the English legal system than on the legal systems of the continent. The influence of Roman law is shown by the wealth of legal terminology, retained by all legal systems, like <I><A title="Stare decisis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stare_decisis">stare decisis</A></I>, <I>culpa in contrahendo</I><SUP class="reference" id="_ref-0"><A title="" href="#_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> or <I><A title="Pacta sunt servanda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacta_sunt_servanda">pacta sunt servanda</A></I>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B6334CB3-F57F-4B41-8E99-1892239C5E79/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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