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South African Law News, Analysis And Evaluation Page 1
The Law Merchant, a precursor to fashionable industrial law, emphasised the liberty to contract and alienability of property. As nationalism grew in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Law Merchant was integrated into nations’ local law beneath new civil codes. In contrast to English common law, which consists of huge tomes of case law, codes in small books are simple to export and straightforward for judges to use. EU law is codified in treaties, however develops by way of de facto precedent laid down by the European Court of Justice. Socialist law is the authorized methods in communist states such…