The Latino-Germanic System

The Latin legal system is the world's oldest and most influential legal system. This system
finds its roots in Roman law, which was the product of its intelligent civilization from the
Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea and from Byzantine to Britain.
Romano-Germanic law family found loyalists in many Arab and Muslim countries, for
example, Turkey remained loyal to its Islamic traditions until the First World War, but has
since strived to bring change by rejecting these traditions and eliminating Islamic principles
or materials in its laws. Because of its secular legislation, Turkey has since become a full
member of the Romanian-Germanic family.
The Arab states founded in the Middle East after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire retained
and documented their legal relationship with France and inherited from the Ottoman Empire,
and in any case these countries did not secularize their laws exactly as Turkey did.
The basic advantage of the civil law system is that its basic principles have been codified in
an appropriate system to serve as a fundamental source of law. The Latin legal system is
sometimes called the New Roman Law and the Civil Law term is the Latin translation of the
term Citizens' Law. The Imperial term is old for the Roman legal system itself, which reflects
laws that governed defeated peoples and were called the laws of peoples.