England adopting "Civil" (Romano-Germanic) Law

How could England adopt Civil Law... with a POD after 1100?
For this to happen, I think it would be needed for Common Law not to develop much, or, at least, be superimposed by the Ius Commune in English territory during the adoptation of Roman Law, around the XIIth and XIIIth centuries. But how? All I know is that Roman Law would have to have been much more widely accepted than OTL by English jurists.

Besides that, if England becomes part of the continental tradition in Law, how would this fact affect the development of English unicity amidst the Western World?
 

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France's Civil Law is based on the same set of Customary laws as Britain's but codified in the 19th century and has nothing to do with roman law. It was based on the common law used by the paris courts.

The continental tradition is not roman.
 
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France's Civil Law is based on the same set of Customary laws as Britain's but codified in the 19th century and has nothing to do with roman law. It was based on the common law used by the paris courts.

The continental tradition is not roman.
Napoleonic rather.

Though actually what usually happened prior is a mix between Germanic Custom and Roman Laws with a slow inclination towards Roman procedure.
 
Okay that makes more sense.
I knew that law degree had to come in handy some day.

I have often wondered about what happens if English common law develops along more continental lines as I prefer civil law to common law. I think it would require more absolutism on the part of the monarchy, but I think more absolutism is heavily dependent on necessity. The whole fortress island things means the parliaments are free to play around arguing with taxes instead of having to unite by behind the king or be conquered by foreign powers like the continental countries. But that's just my theory.
 
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Plus there were the Shires still around from the Pre-Norman Days restraining absolutism. The big problem here is that England was the richest part of the Norman Empire, so all they really wanted to do was replace the leadership without fundamentally altering the shires which helped business.
 
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