CORELAREA NORMELOR JURIDICE ÎN SISTEMUL DE DREPT AL STATELOR UNITE ALE AMERICII

Abstract

Common-Law is the second great contemporary legal system. This legal system is theproduct of a long evolution, under the specific conditions of the British Isles, the expression of a legal mentalitydifferent from the one encountered on the European continent, which asserted itself due to the British colonialexpansion on wide territories in Africa, Asia, America and which have preserved after the independence theinheritance of the Common-Law system. Nowadays Common-Law is enforced in England, Wales, Ireland (butnot in Scotland which has a legal system of its own), in U.S.A. (except for Louisiana), in Canada (except for theprovince of Quebec), in Australia, New Zeeland etc.We consider it important to make a general analysis of the characteristic features of the Anglo-Saxonlegal family and of their influence on the correlation and interaction of the legal norms that make up this family.The aspects regarding the correlation of the legal norms shall obviously be analyzed in terms of thedetermination of the role and place of the law roots they are included in within the law roots system.