He couldn't fly big jets from Love, but the law would let Continental fly smaller jets from Love to any destinations it chose.

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As this arrangement implies, there are big similarities between the precedent-based systems of law that prevail in the Anglophone world, and a wide difference between them and the civil-law tradition of continental Europe.

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The Irish dislike the idea that their system of criminal law could move towards the continental European model.

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Britain's ancient common law traditions are being drastically changed by Continental notions of how justice should be administered.

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That could get tricky in fact: for there has long been a move for large contracts to be drawn up under English law rather than any of the various continental forms.

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They've removed their cases to federal court, citing the OPA as well as a federal law that governs oil spills on the outer continental shelf .

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It is called the Liga Continental, said the referee's brother-in-law Pedro Lopez, who also gets paid to referee in the league.

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Trusts are not used in many civil law jurisdictions, such as the emerging markets in continental Europe, South America and the Far East.

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