UC Davis School of Law
The Catholic Church has the oldest repeatedly functioning legal system in the western world, predating the evolution of contemporary European civil regulation and common regulation systems. The Eastern Catholic Churches, which developed completely different disciplines and practices, are governed by the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. The canon law of the Catholic Church influenced the widespread legislation in the course of the medieval interval via its preservation of Roman legislation doctrine such as the presumption of innocence. Common legislation originated from England and has been inherited by nearly each nation once tied to the British Empire (except Malta, Scotland, the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the Canadian province of Quebec).
There is a robust association between what we typically consider as moral behavior and what the legal guidelines require and supply. For instance, contract legislation upholds society’s sense that promises—in general—should be saved. The legislation supplies cures for … Read More
