Quote Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius View Post
No it isn't, Britain, much of the Commonwealth and the US have common law systems. Those are based on precedent of past cases, rather than reference to a central legal code, as civil law systems like Scotland and much of Continental Europe (courtesy of Napoleon) are.
It's true the common law system is based on past cases. But there's a trickle of these Roman Laws survived through Anglo-Saxon Law, whose rules served the early base of common law cases. In continental europe, the civil code used Roman Law as reference and it's basis.