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Across 4. How legislation begins before passed as an Act 7. Another name for Hugo de Groot 8. Laws passed by Parliament are known as "-------- legislation" 11. Validity of applying Roman-Dutch law in the Cape was confirmed by Britain when it passed the first and second -------- of Justice of 1827 and 1834 13. First name of the Roman emperor Justinian 17. A well-known jurist appointed by Justinian to head a commission to collect and consolidate existing Roman law 19. The body of law resulting from decisions on points of law made by other courts with regard to the same circumstances 23. The supreme law in the Republic of South Africa, and prevails over all other laws 27. "Ratio --------" is the legal principle of each case 29. The State newspaper that publishes Acts of Parliament 30. This consists of all the laws considered by South African courts as being persuasive or binding

Down 1. ------ dicta are "remarks made in passing" 2. "----- decisis et non quieta movere" 3. The Constitution provides for the separation of the legislative, executive and -------- arms of government 5. Head of State of South Africa 6. ----------- courts in a province must follow decisions of the High Court in that province 9. This land was annexed by Britain and became a Crown Colony in 1844 10. Defined as the setting down of binding rules of law in a formalized way, by an authority that has the legal capacity to do so 12. Pandects 14. ---------- through disuse means that a law is so out of date that it is useless 15. Court established following the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 16. House of Parliament to which Members are elected for a five-year term according to a system of proportional representation 18. Contained in chapter two of the Constitution 20. Means the way the name of a court case is written, printed or referred to 21. Roman-Dutch law refers to the legal system that applied in the ---------- during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 22. Place where the Appellate Division was located in 1910 24. South Africa became a -------- in 1961 25. Law of Nations 26. Outside the powers of the law 28. The Twelve Tables of Rome were made of this metal