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CODIFICATION:
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IN THE PHILIPPINES
President Manuel L Quezon in 1940
was the first step in codification, when
he created a Code Committee to
formulate the Civil Code of the
Philippines
Civil laws four different concepts
1) Equivalent to national law
2) Distinguish the body of law
composed of plebiscites,
imperial constitutions
3) Law applicable to the citizens of
Rome
4) Used to designate the opinions
of authorized jurisconsults
PRESENT CONCEPT:
Law which has for its double
purposes of organization of the
family and the regulation of
property
SOURCES OF CIVIL LAW
1) New Civil Code
2) Some statutes such as the
Copyright Law, the Patent Law,
the Law of Waters, and the
various labor laws and other
social legislation
INFLUENCES:
on Spanish Civil Law:
1)
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3)
4)
Roman Law
Germanic Law
Canon law
Scientific evolutionary
thought
5) Foreign legislation
6) Doctrines contained in the
jurisprudence
On Anglo-American Common Law
-neither English no American common
law is in force in the Philippines nor
are the doctrines derived therefrom
binding upon our courts, save only so
far as they are founded on sound
principles applicable to local
conditions and are not in conflict with
existing laws