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What are the salient differences between English Common Law and the Napoleonic Code?

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The Napoleonic code was an effort to put together texts of law redacted in the clearest way possible in order to make it accessible to all citizen. The main difference with English Common Law is that in civil law jurisdictions judicial precedent is given relatively less weight, and scholarly literature is given relatively more. The Napoleonic code expressly forbade French judges from pronouncing the law.

This the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, almost all non-Islamic, non-common law countries.

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