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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]
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 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.
--Youp.c (talk) 14:36, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Scots law did not influence (Roman-)Dutch law, but (Roman-)Dutch influenced Scots law
I was rather suprised to read that Scots law influenced Roman-Dutch, Scotland has never really been a great power and it seems unlikely that its laws have influenced the laws of The Netherlands which was one of the great powers in the 17th century both on an economic and academic level. I read large parts of the cited article ( John W. Cairns, “Importing our Lawyers from Holland: Netherlands Influences on Scots Law and Lawyers in the Eighteenth Century”, in Scotland and the Low Countries, 1124–1994, ed. G. G. Simpson (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1996), 136; reprinted in Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015) on Google Books and I am still not convinced that this is true. I think that it, rather clearly, discusses the other way around like the title says: 'the Netherlands Influences on Scots Law', the (Roman-)Dutch influences on Scots law.
