The primary sources of South Africa law were Roman-Dutch commercial law and personal law with English common law, as imports of Dutch settlements and British colonialism. The first European based law in South Africa was launched by the Dutch East India Company and is Roman-Dutch law. It was before the codification of European law into the Napoleonic Code and is comparable in many ways, the Scottish law. This was followed in the 19th century by British law both general and law. Since 1910, with the Association, South Africa had its own parliament, laws specifically for South Africa, based on previously for the individual member colonies.

Roman Dutch law is a legal system based on Roman law, as in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18 Century. As such it is a large number of continental European civil law or ius commune. While the Roman-Dutch law no longer apply in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 19th Century, Roman Dutch law is still applied today by the courts of South Africa and Sri Lanka.

While Roman law was mostly forgotten, in the early Middle Ages, in the teachings of the Roman Jurists returned when the year 1070 - a copy of the summary of the Emperor Justinian I was in Italy. Scientists in the emerging University of Bologna began the investigation of the Roman texts and to teach law on the basis of these texts. Courts after the application of Roman law as a lecturer at the University of Bologna (and soon elsewhere), as the judge considers that the sophisticated legal concepts of Roman law were more likely to solve more complex than for the Germanic laws that were in use before Roman law again. This process (the reception of Roman law) was held in Italy and then in the rest of the European continent.

In the 15th Century, the process in the Netherlands reached. While the Italian jurists were the first to contribute to the new science of the law on the basis of Roman texts in the 16th Century, French lawyers were most influential. In the 17th and 18 Century was the leading role of the legal science in the Netherlands. Members of the so-called school of elegant jurisprudence, which Hugo Grotius, John voet, Ulrich Huber, and many others. These researchers to combine the Roman law with some legal concepts from the traditional Germanic customary law of the Netherlands, especially in the province of Holland. Dre resulting mixture was predominantly Roman, but it contains some features that are typically Dutch. This mixture is known as Roman Dutch law. The introduction of the Dutch law of the State, its colonies. In this way, the Dutch variety of the European ius commune was in South Africa and Sri Lanka.

In the Netherlands, the history of the Roman-Dutch law is ended as soon as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the French Civil Code in 1809. However, Roman Dutch law does not by French law in the former Dutch colonies. In this way, Roman Dutch law survived to this day.

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