Common Law VS Civil Law

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How they work and main differences

I belive this may have been posted before, but it seems to me that even if that’s the case, the topic deserves a bump, am I right?

Thanks for any comments, even if it’s to tell me how I f’d up and this is actually r/rickandmorty or something stupid

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Civil law is the system where the legislator -usally the parliament- is the ultimate authority of law and the courts only interpret the law. There is no precedent or binding decisions and while often there is some continuity of opinion, there are no binding decisions, so even slightly different circumstances can lead to different judgements. While the higher courts try to settle differences in opinions there are often prompts for the legislative to amend/change/create laws. Additionally laws come with some form of “legislators intent” – which states the goal of the laws.

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