Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family PDF
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MIXED JURISDICTIONS WORLDWIDE second edition Thisexaminationofthemixed-jurisdictionexperiencemakesuseofan innovativecross-comparativemethodologytoprovideawealthofdetail oneachoftheninecountriesstudied.Itidentifiesthedeepresemblances andsalienttraitsofthislegalfamily,andthebroadanalyticaloverview highlights the family links while providing a detailed individual treat- mentofeachcountrywhichrevealstheirindividualpersonalities. This updated second edition includes two new countries (Botswana andMalta),andtheappendixesexploreallothermixedjurisdictionsand containaspecialreportonCameroon. vernon valentine palmer is Thomas Pickles Professor of Law at Tulane University, New Orleans, and Co-Director of the Eason WeinmannCenterforComparativeLaw.Aleadingexpertoncompara- tivelaw,hehastaughtwidelyinEurope,andisthefounderandPresident oftheWorldSocietyofMixedJurisdictionJurists. MIXED JURISDICTIONS WORLDWIDE The Third Legal Family second edition Edited by VERNON VALENTINE PALMER ThomasPicklesProfessorofLawandCo-DirectoroftheEason WeinmannCenterforComparativeLaw,TulaneUniversity cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521768573 ©VernonValentinePalmer2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Palmer,VernonV. Mixedjurisdictionsworldwide:thethirdlegalfamily/VernonValentinePalmer.–2nded. p. cm. Includesindex. ISBN978-0-521-76857-3 1. Civillawsystems. 2. Commonlaw. 3. Legalpolycentricity. I. Title. K585.P35 2012 340.5–dc23 2012015494 ISBN978-0-521-76857-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ForValentinandMartha CONTENTS Prefacetothesecondedition pagexi Prefacetothefirstedition xiii Listofcontributors xvi Listofselectabbreviations xviii part i Introductionandcomparativeoverview 1 Introductiontothemixedjurisdictions 3 vernon valentine palmer I Aglimpseattheextendedfamily 3 II Themixedjurisdictioninprofile:three characteristics 7 III Thequestionofathirdlegalfamily 11 IV Researchmethodsandcountryreports 16 1 Adescriptiveandcomparativeoverview 19 vernon valentine palmer I Themixedjurisdictionasanhistoricalidea 19 II Uponaninvisiblefoundation:theclaimsofculturetothe civillawsphere 24 III Theculturalvoicesofjudgeandjurist:purists, pragmatists,andpollutionists 39 IV Thesystembuildersandtheiredifice 44 V Thelinguisticfactor:thedemandsofdualism 50 VI Theplaceofprecedentinlegalreasoningandinthe schemeoflegalsources 54 vii viii contents VII Thetworeceptionsofcommonlaw:patternand process 64 VIII “Originallaw”:theprocessofcreatingautonomous law 71 IX ThebroadassimilationofAnglo-Americanprocedure andevidence 74 X Commerciallaw:theroleofthedominant economy 79 Interimconclusions 89 part ii Thecomparativeevidence 93 2 TheRepublicofSouthAfrica 95 c.g. van der merwe, jacques du plessis, marius de waal, reinhard zimmermann, and paul farlam 3 Scotland 216 elspeth reid 4 Louisiana 277 vernon valentine palmer and harry borowski 5 Quebec 354 michael mcauley 6 PuertoRico 381 luis mun˜iz-argu¨elles 7 ThePhilippines 452 pacifico agabin 8 Botswana 481 charles fombad 9 Malta 528 biagio ando´, kevin aquilina, j. scerri-diacono, and david zammit 10 Israel 577 tamar gidron contents ix Conclusions 611 vernon valentine palmer AppendixAQuestionnaire 614 AppendixBOthermixedjurisdictionsoftheworld 625 AppendixCSpecialreportonCameroon 632 Index 675
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