Are mixed legal systems necessarily systems in transition, or can they achieve stability?: Do they remain mixes of Civil and Common law, or can they become creative sources of their own distinctive type of rules?

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: 72%, Stellenbosch Universitiy (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa - Department for Private Law), course: Comparative Private Law, language: English, abstract: This paper is aimed at presenting why, in the author’s opinion, mixed legal systems are not likely to be in a transitory stage in either the Civil or Common law direction and will not end up as one of the two “classical” lega...