PrefaceI
Part 1 Civil Law System
Chapter 1 Development of the Lawl
1 Various Periods of the Development of the Civil Law System
1.1 The Period of Customa ry Law
1.2 The Origin of Western Legal Education and Schools of Scholars'Law
1.3 Expansion of the Roman Law and the Civil Law
2 Legislative Law
2.1 Legislation and Codification
2.2 Unity and Diversity of the Civil law System
3 Structure of the Civi Law
3.1 PtJblic law
3.2 Private Law
3.3 Legal Rules
4 Sources of Law
4.1 Legislation--Statute
4.2 Conditions Suitable to Law
4.3 Custom
4.4 Decided Cases
4.5 Legal Writing and Super-eminent Principles
Part 2 Common Law System
Chapter 2 English law
5 Development of English Law
5.1 Anglo-Saxon Law and the Common Law
5.2 Development of the Common Law
5.3 Essential Features of English Law
5.4 Confrontation and Compromise between the Common law & Equity
5.5 Modern Period of English Law
6 Structure of English Law
6.1 Structural Features of English Law
6.2 Development of Equity
6.3 Trust
6.4 Adjective Law and Substantive Law
6.5 Judge-made Legal Rule
7 Sources of English Law
7.1 English Judicial Organizations
7.2 Rule of Precedent
7.3 Statutory Law
7.4 Custom
7.5 Legal Writing and Reason
Chapter 3 Law of the United States of America
8 History of American Law
8.1 The Triumph of the Common Law in America
8.2 Similarities and Differences between American and British Common Laws
8.3 Structure of American Law
8.4 Common Law in America
8.5 Unity and Conflict of Laws
9 Sources of American Law
9.1 Judicial Organization
9.2 American Legal Professionals and Legal Education
9.3 Attitudes Towards the Rule of Stare Decisis
9.4 Constitutionality of Legislation
9.5 Interpretation of the Constitution
9.6 Regulating Power and Administrative Law
9.7 American Codes and Restatement of the Law
INDEX