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Originally Posted by SigmaOmega
Law is taught by learning a large number of cases and distilling general principals from those cases. In order to make new legal arguments, you must build by analogy from cases that have already been decided while defining and refining the principals lying underneath.
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That's true of anglo-saxon common law but it's not an accurate description of continental europe law (such as practiced in France, Germany, Japan, Louisianna and Québec) where there is a principle stated by law and the cases are simply either illustration of the application of said principle.