A Common Law-like Civil Law and a Public Face for Private Law

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Private Law

Civil and Common Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 226-240
Author(s):  
Lionel Smith
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
The Future

This chapter aims to answer the question, “what can the civil law tradition tell us about the New Private Law?” It seeks to do this by offering one civilian's perspective on private law, on U.S. private law, and on the New Private Law. In order to answer that question, it is necessary to say a little bit about what is a civilian perspective, or in other words, what makes a jurist a civilian. This is a question to which many different answers could be given. The chapter then looks at the different perspective that a civilian may have on what is the domain of private law. It also asks what insights the civilian's understanding of the discipline of law may offer to common lawyers. From a civilian perspective, the future of the New Private Law will be interesting indeed.

European Private Law: Moving From a Closed to an Open System of Proprietary Rights

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-396
Author(s):  
J H Dalhuisen
Keyword(s):  
Open System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
Lex Mercatoria

This article considers the denationalisation ofprivate law across both Civil Law and Common Lawjurisdictions in Europe. It looks in particular at systems ofproprietary rights and the demands currently placedupon them by commercial logic and practice. As the basic tenets ofownership are reformulated at transnational level in respect of commerce, trade, andfinance, greaterflexibility may be required of the Civil Law. In this connection, the conditional and temporary ownership notions offered by both the Civil and the Common Law may make a contribution to the development ofthe modern Lex Mercatoria.

A Matter of Interpretation: Constructing and Interpreting Commercial Contracts under the Common Law and the Convention on the International Sale of Goods

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Gordon Wade
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
International Private Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
International Sale Of Goods ◽  
Contractual Obligations

Contractual disputes concerning interpretation can be the most intractable of all contractual disputes and their outcome is notoriously difficult to predict. The interpretation of contradictory or ambiguous contractual provisions may often be necessary in order to determine, inter alia, the effect of the parties’ actions upon the performance of the contract and what the substantive contractual obligations actually are. Contractual interpretation in civil law and common law jurisdictions proceeds from fundamentally different perspectives, particularly when viewed in light of a recognised international private law convention, the cisg. Comparing and contrasting the common law and the cisg shows the latter to be the product of a diplomatic conference comprising 62 States and eight international organisations and not a series of ancient pronouncements of English judges who developed commercial law through 19th century sensibilities. The cisg and the common law are, however, not poles apart but the cisg was born because commercial trading, commercial agreements and the parties involved have become increasingly internationalised, complex and sophisticated.

Personnalité, Persönlichkeit, Personality

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Resta
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Early History ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Insight Into

Can we translate the expression “droits de la personnalité” or “Persönlichkeitsrechte” into English? Is the notion of “personality” an equivalent of the continental “personnalité” or “Persönlichkeit”? This paper will deal with these questions from the perspective of comparative law. After a brief survey of the uses of the notion “personality right” in some selected civil law and common law jurisdictions, the attention will be focused on the early history and the modern development of this category, with the aim of providing some insight into the distinctive features of the continental idea of “protecting personality”. In the conclusion, two different conceptions of safeguarding personhood in private law will be contrasted, and it will be clarified to what extent the civilian droits de la personnalité should be regarded as an intraduisible.

scholarly journals Comment on Civil Law and Common Law: Two Different Paths Leading to the Same Goal

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Nottage
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Convergence And Divergence

This article discusses civil and common law in the context of Caslav Pejovic's article of the same name. Pejovic noticed a trend where common law was increasingly hemmed in by legislation while law jurisdictions were increasingly reliant on precedent set by the courts. Pejovic therefore called for the unification of private law globally. Nottage then explores how different academics approached a potential convergence/divergence dichotomy within civil and common law. The article suggests that a "middle ground" dimension between convergence and divergence is a possible development. The author ultimately advocates for the middle ground dimension as it provides socio-economic context for laws, as well as promoting exegesis in statutory and case analysis. The author thus concludes that convergence and divergence are both valuable.

scholarly journals La Loi sur les connaissements, les reçus et les cessions de biens en stock : quelques problèmes substantiels

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-520
Author(s):  
Robert Demers
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Credit Unions ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Bill Of Lading

The recent adoption of An Act respecting the transfer of property in stock has raised once again the controversy on the exact nature of the rights acquired by the holder of a bill of lading and a warehouse receipt. This problem is a familiar one for the specialist in banking law who well knows the endless contradictions concerning the interpretation of article 178 of the Bank Act. In this instance, the provincial legislature wished to give to quasi-banks (credit unions) the same possibility of securing loans as that afforded to banks under federal legislation. By a rather clever set of new rules added to the provincial Bills of Lading Act, this result is attained and is predicated on the idea that the creditor obtains full title of ownership on the goods ceded to him in the contract of loan. However, even in common law jurisdictions, the complete transfer of title is rarely admitted in such transactions and in codifying this dubious interpretation of case law, the legislature is perhaps not simplifying an already muddled area of our private law. Viewed in a historical perspective, Quebec law on this subject tends to reconcile the rights of the endorsee with those of civil law institutions, i.e. pledge. One hundred years of jurisprudence stands to that effect, until the '50s, where common law ideas seem to have taken hold of the courts. The result is of course a little bewildering and the student of our laws must gather together all of his patience in the study of this area already described early in the century by Mignault as being a Chinese brain-teaser.

scholarly journals Du Maintien des Appels a la Cour Supreme du Canada en Matiere de Droit Civil

1969 ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Gérald A. Beaudoin
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Common ◽  
Le Canada ◽  
Article Analyse

L'auteur de cet article analyse la question du maintien des appels en droit civil la Cour Supr&me. Dans le contexte fSdSral canadien, il se declare favorable au maintien de ces appels. II trouve plus d'avantages que de disavantages. Le Canada ayant deux systdmes de droit privi, il convient que le plus haut tribunal du pays se prononce en ces matidres il s'agit d'une richesse pour notre pays. 11 moyen d'assurer la purete" de Vun et de Vautre systdme. The author of this article analyses the question of the retention of the civil law appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada. He is in favour of such appeals in our federation. We have in Canada two private law systemss one inspired from the Common Law of England and the other from "le droit civil" of France. It is appro priate for our highest tribunal to render judgments in both systems. This is great advantage for our country. Steps may be taken to assure the purity of both systems.

National Report for Mexico

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Sánchez-Mejorada y Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Profit Motive ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
The Status

In civil law systems, such as Mexico, a distinction is made between civil law (‘derecho civil’) and commercial law (‘derecho mercantil’), which can be confusing to persons unfamiliar with the system. As is the case in common law jurisdictions, law in civil law systems can be divided into public law and private law, the latter being those laws that govern relationships between and among private parties, regarding which the state functions more as a ‘supervisor’ or an ‘umpire’ than as an authority. Public law would include constitutional law, administrative law, etc. In turn, private law comprises civil law, ie those rules governing the status, rights, and obligations of the residents of the state as persons, their property, their estates, their obligations, and their contracts; and commercial law, those rules governing all acts of the residents of the state that have a profit motive, which in Mexico—as well as in other jurisdictions—are called ‘acts of commerce’ (‘actos de comercio’).

Lepaulle Appropriated

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Popovici ◽  
Lionel D Smith
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Municipal Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
Droit International

This chapter discusses the English translation of the first chapter of Pierre Lepaulle's 1932 book Traité théorique et pratique des trusts en droit interne, en droit fiscal et en droit international (A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Trusts in Municipal Law, Tax Law, and International Law). The book articulates Lepaulle's vision of the common law trust as an affected patrimony. His goal was to explain the common law trust to a civilian audience, using the vocabulary and the conceptual tools of the civil law in its French manifestation. The chapter first provides a background on the translation project, which involved appropriating Lepaulle, and the author before presenting the translation. It emphasises the significance of Lepaulle's work to the notions of trust and patrimony as well as to civil law in French and to private law more generally, including the common law.

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