"This publication has been prepared and is being published by the Federal Judicial Center at the request of the International Judicial Relations Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States."

Electronic reproduction. [Kaneohe, Hawaii : LLMC, 2005]. (LLMC-Digital). Digitized image of the microfiche version produced by Law Library Microform Consortium. Subscription required for access. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Also issued in microfiche.

Print version: Apple, James G. Primer on the civil-law system. Washington, DC : Federal Judicial Center, [1995]

Introduction

Part I: The history and development of the civil-law system

In the beginning: "All roads lead to Rome"

Medieval developments in Italy

Canon law and the law merchant

Intellectual development leading to the codification process

The codification process in France and Germany: The French code, The German code

The codes of Chile and Brazil

The development of the role of jurists in modern systems

Part II: The civil-law system as it exists and functions in the modern era

The public law-private law dichotomy

Court structure

The legal process: Civil procedure, Criminal procedure, Appellate procedure

Legal actors: tradition and transition: Legal scholars, The legislature, Judges, Legal education and lawyers, Transition in the civil-law world

Part III: The common law and a comparison of the civil-law and comon-law systems

Origins of the common-law system

Jurists in the common-law system

Differences in the two systems

Conclusion.

Civil law > History.

History.

Electronic books.

History.

Judicial Conference of the United States. International Judicial Relations Committee.