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To: Harlan1196
Those are all active statutes. 1999, 2005, 1975
Were the original laws altered?

You can play silly games all day but you still have only two choices: Common Law or Civil Law.
Since you like Wikipedia so much...@Civil law (common law)
This article is about civil law within the common law legal system.

What am I supposed to do now?

218 posted on 02/18/2012 7:10:49 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

You are supposed to realize that you have confused two separate concepts.

What I am talking about:

Civil law (legal system)

Civil law (or civilian law) is a legal system inspired by Roman law and whose primary feature is that laws are codified into collections, as compared to common law systems that gives great precedential weight to common law on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_%28legal_system%29

What you are talking about:

Civil law (common law)

Civil law, as opposed to criminal law, is the branch of law dealing with disputes between individuals or organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_%28common_law%29


220 posted on 02/18/2012 7:18:01 PM PST by Harlan1196
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