EIRP Proceedings, Vol 3 (2008)

Abstract

Common-Law is the second great contemporary legal system. This legal system is the
product of a long evolution, under the specific conditions of the British Isles, the expression of a legal mentality
different from the one encountered on the European continent, which asserted itself due to the British colonial
expansion on wide territories in Africa, Asia, America and which have preserved after the independence the
inheritance of the Common-Law system. Nowadays Common-Law is enforced in England, Wales, Ireland (but
not in Scotland which has a legal system of its own), in U.S.A. (except for Louisiana), in Canada (except for the
province of Quebec), in Australia, New Zeeland etc.
We consider it important to make a general analysis of the characteristic features of the Anglo-Saxon
legal family and of their influence on the correlation and interaction of the legal norms that make up this family.
The aspects regarding the correlation of the legal norms shall obviously be analyzed in terms of the
determination of the role and place of the law roots they are included in within the law roots system.