[Foundation-l] NYT: Who owns the law? (Noam Cohen)

Tue Sep 30 22:31:49 UTC 2008

2008/9/30 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>:
>
> Heh. This does sort of make me interested in a further enquiry though...
>
> Are all the countries which base their law on the english system still
> members of the commonwealth?

No a bunch left when they became republics. India for example.

> And no, this is not an idle question or asked merely rhetorically. I
> really don't know.
>
> For that matter, could not, and did not some countries base their legal
> system on the english laws, and never ever were members of the
> kingdom/empire/commonwealth in the first place? I could easily imagine a
> country devising a legal system modeled after the English legal
> framework, which actually never came under the crown itself.

Technically the Philippines via the US. But much of what wasn't nabbed
by Britain was acquired by other Europeans or later the soviets. Not
sure what ethiopian law is based on these days.

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geni