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Test cases. Most of the court works on previous verdicts, which is analogous to test cases.
by iamgopal 6y ago
Test cases. Most of the court works on previous verdicts, which is analogous to test cases.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoThis is actually not true for the majority of the world's legal systems. Previous verdicts are something that matters for a _Common_ Law legal system, which is only a small part of the world's legal systems. (See the pink countries in the world map referenced [0]) The majority of the world's countries follow a _Civil_ Law system, where verdicts are based on the court's judgement against the written law, civil law is a sort of descendent of the Roman law system. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#/media/File:Map_of_the_Legal_systems_of_the_world_(en).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#/media/File:Map_of_...