Civil Law System Essay

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Narita Sakunchotikarote
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LB100
October 21, 2015

Is modern Thai law considered a civil law system? Why? Modern Thai law is considered a civil law system because it has all the essential substances of civil law system. In this essay I will be supporting my statement by first explaining history of civil law system and history Thai law. Then I will give reasons and explain why is Thai law considered a civil law system.

Civil law system is a system with long shared history and is widely used as legal system in many countries including Thailand. The history of civil law system was inherited continuously throughout Europe and middle east countries. Civil law system has derived its main origin from Roman law or individuality Justinian …show more content…

This particular contract consequences in lost of country’s extraterritorial rights. The contract started with the English people opinion that Thailand’s way of crime investigation is cruel and unacceptable therefore they requested in the contract that any crime occur in Thailand cause by English people and those in concern with the crime right to have their trial done in England. The three seal code was the best written evidence of the pre-codification Thai law using before the time of Bowring contract. It can be divided into two types; written law and unwritten law. Some of the three seal code contracts can be compared to recent modern contracts but are not orderly arranged like the one we are using in the present. Thai law in the past was perceived by foreigners as law based mostly on religious. However foreigners found that the law suit local Thai people fairly proficiently. there were observation That the legal system at that time were both yieldingly to natural law and was done so without disregarding moral law. Even though there were trial by ordeal: putting people on a hazardous test to determine wether they are guilty or innocent and cruel punishment such as finger cutting or rock throwing. offer in the system they were not being used very often due to the people’s believe of the Buddhist religion that all people and creature should be treated respectably and