Instead of making laws like normal a judge from a hundred years ago gets to be the authority unless yet another judge decides to overrule them and become the new authority???

  • RION [she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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    11 days ago

    In civil law they still take into account how a law has previously been applied, they just don’t get to declare what is often in effect a new law through their ruling