| Autor: |
Oto-Peralías, Daniel, Romero-Ávila, Diego |
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Journal of Law & Economics; Aug2014, Vol. 57 Issue 3, p561-628, 68p |
| Abstrakt: |
The distribution of the common law was conditioned by a colonial strategy sensitive to the colonies' level of endowments, exhibiting a more effective implantation of the legal system in initially sparsely populated territories with a temperate climate. This translates into a negative relationship of precolonial population density and settler mortality with legal outcomes for common-law countries. By contrast, the implantation of the French civil law was not systematically influenced by initial conditions, which is reflected in the lack of such a relationship for this legal family. The common law does not generally lead to legal outcomes superior to those provided by the French civil law when precolonial population density and/or settler mortality are high. The form of colonial rule in British colonies is found to mediate between precolonial endowments and postcolonial legal outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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