Legal Literacy - This article discusses the types of legal systems that exist and are applied in the world. Let's look at the explanation of the various types of legal systems in the world, and find out the differences.

Civil Law System

Basically, the civil law system is adopted by Continental European countries which are based on Roman law. Roman law itself is sourced from Corpus Iuris Civils by Emperor Iustinianus. In its historical development Corpus Iuris Civils regulates laws that can satisfactorily resolve various more active economic problems and problems of society that are more developed in using their land.

Roman law offers a unification of laws that apply to all political units. Roman law itself is formed from various customs and socio-institutions of Western Europe. (L. Friedman, 2009: 268).

As is known, one of the most prominent features of the civil law system is the division of law, namely private law and public law. Furthermore, in such a long historical journey, the civil law system has been greatly influenced by the doctrine of natural law. According to the doctrine of natural law, the factor of reason greatly influences the civil law system.

According to Satjipto Rahardjo (1996:240), the characteristic of the civil law system or Roman law starts from the center of life and the administration of law lies in the concept of people about rules or rules. The concept of this rule is very important because it determines how legal life in a country is organized. This concept of rule is what distinguishes between the civil law system and the common law system.

The civil law system based on Roman law is based on elements, namely First Roman law. Second, Church law. Third, German law itself. Furthermore, the characteristics of the civil law system include the formation starting from the role of universities at that time. The period of the role of the university is also commonly called the period renaissance.

The next prominent feature of the civil law system is that the main source of law is legislation or commonly called code law. In the civil law system, the approach method used by legal experts, in this case judges, is abstract and theoretical, namely by using the deduction method, which starts from general things to specific or concrete things.

The civil law system, as described previously, originates from human products which are then referred to as laws and regulations or also commonly referred to as written law.