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 | | In the civil law tradition, case lw formally plays a minor role compared tothe status of the civil code ; however, judicial interpretation of thecivil code, interpreting the legal meaning of the code provisions, clarifying them, and providing for unforeseen developments, isoften referred to as a juriprudence constante. |
 | | Because court decisions in civil law traditions are brief and not amenable to establishingprecedent, much of the exposition of the law in civil law traditions is done by academics rather than by judges, this is calleddoctrine and may be published in treatises or in journals such as Recueil Dalloz in France. |
 | | In the common law the practice hasevolved in the other direction, thus at the turn of the twentieth century it was very rare to see an academic writer quoted in alegal decision (except perhaps for Blackstone). |
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