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Contributory Negligence In Europe, Huib Drion

Cleveland State Law Review

The Dutch law relating to contributory negligence is entirely judge made law, as it is in France and Belgium and in the other countries which have derived their civil codes from the Code Napoleon. We have here a good example of the advantage of the more elastic development of judge made law in the countries with codified laws, at least in the field of the law of torts.