The Civil Law tradition: the Portuguese legal system

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2003

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University of Salford
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Civil Law tradition, Portuguese legal system

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Caramelo-Gomes, J. (2003). The Civil Law tradition: the Portuguese legal system. University of Salford.

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http://hdl.handle.net/11328/700
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It is traditionally accepted that there are four families of Legal systems: the civil law, the common law, Islamic law and socialist law. The last is a system where socialist principles are incorporated in substantive law and the third is a system where religious principles gain strength of law. We will not discuss the validity or merit of this classification.