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Originally Posted by aka123
In common law the law per se is written; the common part is that how you apply it (based on previous sentences). And when you have a shit load of previous sentences, it gets worse every year (as you have even more sentences), and it loses its purpose; that is to make things predictable.
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Why would that necessarily make it unpredictable? The law is written, and the judge's application of the law is also written, so any citizen can "pretty much read the law and expect to be judged based on that."