Talk:Roman-Dutch law

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Latest comment: 16 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Assessment per the request at WP:LAW. This is a solid start class article. To get it to B class it needs expansion, I would suggest describing some of the characteristics/differences of this type of law, as well as some history of its expansion. Currently the article covers how it got to The Netherlands, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, but other countries are listed in the lead. Then I would switch to footnote style citations utilizing the <ref>Johnson, p. 34</ref> to make it more clear where the source was for different parts of the article. I believe this is now required for GA class articles and above. Great start, and good luck expanding/improving. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:41, 26 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

British colonies

Why was mentioned that some of the countries that still use (some aspects of) Roman-Dutch law like Guyana, South Africa, and Sri Lanka were British colonies? That seems to be of no relevance to the subject matter of this wikipedia article. All countries mention mentioned (Guyana, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Suriname) were either at some point in time part of the Dutch colonial empire, or are or were under influence of one of those former colonies. The fact that some of them were also British colonies at some later moment of time does not seems to be relevant to this article, hence I removed that information.