Partie 1 : Cours d'anglais juridique : Legal professions in the common law countries, county courts...

Foreword There is an undeniable close relation between law and language. Every English-speaking country is a common law country, and all the Latin countries have a romano-civilist system. Quebec has a mixed system, common law and civil law. Both law and language are inextricably tied. During the twelfth century, the change of the language usually spoken in accompanied by the modification of the body of law. Also, in 1898, after being conquered by the , switch to a Common law system. Today, they’ve completely forgotten the Spanish. Identically, , a former Dutch colony, up to 1917, has switched form a roman-Dutch system to a common law system. This can be explained by the fact that changing one’s language is changing one’s way of thinking. NB: The roman-Dutch law is the law applicable in and countries in this area such as . Afrikaans still have access to the old roman-Dutch law texts. Grotius (De jure ad pacis, Jus gentium) in the event of a vacuum legis, would use Roman law principles to mend the lacks in customary international law. Dutch lawyers between the 15th and 17th century, established international law based on Roman law pples. Indeed, the United Provinces being a paramount actor in the international trade, needed maritime law as well as law of trade.

Introduction: English law is the law applicable to and per se. There is a difference between England Great Britain and the . isn’t a country; it is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Chronology:
Ÿ 1066: the Norman Conquest
Ÿ 1536: annexation of
Ÿ 1707: Union of and
Ÿ 1921: Emergence on the International scene of the Irish Free State. The island or is partitioned Common law, Equity and statute law form the law of the . Common law if the foundation, keystone of English law, its core and skeleton. English law didn’t