大陆法律英文

At the moment, the basical legal system that have used by many countries in the world can be divided into second class: continental law system and common law system. The main difference between them are:

First, the legal origin are different.the continental law system is written law, but not including judicial precedents. The legal origin of the common law system includes both the written law and judicial precedents. and a case of case law in the legal system plays a very important role.

Second, the legal structure are different. Code is the trunk of the legal system structure. The legal system in the structure was developed via the special law and the case law .

Third, the powers of a judge are different. The judge can only applicable law ,but not creating law. The judge in the common law system not only applicable law, also creat law in a certain range .

Fourth, the procedure is different. The continental law system as the judge as the litigation procedure for center of gravity,the litigation procedure of the common law system as the plaintiff and the defendant and his defenders and agents for center of gravity,

In addition, there are many differents in law classification, law education, judicial personnel employed and the judicial system and so on of the two system.