The canon law of the Catholic Church influenced the frequent law in the course of the medieval period via its preservation of Roman law doctrine such as the presumption of innocence. Around 1900 Max Weber outlined his “scientific” approach to law, identifying the “authorized rational type” as a type of domination, not attributable to non-public authority however to the authority of abstract norms. Formal legal rationality was his term for the vital thing characteristic of the sort of coherent and calculable law that was a precondition for contemporary political developments and the modern bureaucratic state.
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