NEO COLONISATION

This is the phenomenon where there exist a neo -colonial relationship between the colony that is the
people of Netherlands and the colonisers which were the Romans.The neo -colony copies the laws of
the colonial masters because it has no independent thought .Holland ,whose inhabitants were mainly
tribes of Germanic origin was conquered and occupied by Roman under Emperor ,Julius Ceasar (1).This
made the people of Holland to depend on the laws of the Romans .Hahlo and Kahn concurred and they
submitted that "...five hundred years of Roman rule could however could not ,fail to leave their
impression on laws of Germanic tribes "(2). Hence this shows that neo colonisation played a crucial in
the reception of Roman Law in the Netherlands

ASSIMILATION

Assimilation process is the process whereby the people of Netherlands freely borrowed from the Roman
Law to supplement gaps in its development of their legal system .With the collapse of Roman rule AD
476,the reception took a new form which involved resorting to Roman Law in situations were
customary Law failed to provide answers .Bit by bit the local customary Law was reconstructed in light
of Roman Law .This has been supported by Wille's Principles of Southern Africa he said that … [in] the
Netherlands, when it wasbecoming clear that the local Dutch laws were not sufficiently developed to
suit the conditions of the country, the more detailed principles of the Roman law were turned to and
applied by the rulers, by the courts and by the people.Thereby allowing the people of Netherlands to
use the Roman in cases where it applied.

GRADUAL INFILTRATION

This process is similar to assimilation but it is a lower scale of incorporation character rised
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