Greater French judicial intervention aimed to fuse customs into a hybrid modern law

Evidence

When invention is active, when industry, commerce and transportation bring about new forms of human relations and when community relations change because of the extension of ethical and moral ideas, the law is able to keep pace with the variety and subtlety of social change. … Old” new law may sometimes give way to “new” new law. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1311 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial administrators sought to reconcile customary law with French control; The common law adapts to social and economic change — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1311; Treaties with chiefs made customary law the federation’s common law

Related

• Colonial administrators sought to reconcile customary law with French control (similarity 0.81)
• The common law adapts to social and economic change (similarity 0.80)
• Nineteenth-century judges actively reshaped common law to fit American conditions. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The common law adapts to social and economic change #corroborates (0.50) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1311
• Treaties with chiefs made customary law the federation’s common law #complicates (0.40)