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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9797761" data-attributes="member: 42856">It's not specific to common law to have complicated exemptions. Because oversimplifying texts will either lead to unwanted side effect -- for example, if you forgot to add an earthquake exemption to the "don't build houses that kill you", then a lot of people will go to jail when an earthquake happens -- and also, "building houses" isn't just a matter of physical injury. You might want rules to protect the environment (don't use pollutant in the building), the historical value of another building (don't build a jarring gaudy building just in front of a historically significant building), the rights of neighours (if you buy a house in a quiet residential district, you might be able to convince politicians that you're harmed if a heavy industry is built next to your house)...The most recent rewrite of the building code in France, a purely civil law country, dates back from 2018 and it isn't simpler than common law country regulations. I'd guess it's even more stringent than most common law countries.WRT to old regulations, it can happen in civil law countries, too: I still find very funny to pass judgements mentionning a 1539 royal edict -- even in civil law countries, you can get some surviving pieces of legislation. Basically, it is unwise to say "everything until now is void and here is the new system": you might mistakenly make legal some awful things. When the French authorities in 1945 wanted to undo the legislations passed during WWII by both the occupying German forces and the collaborationist Vichy government, they cancelled a few specific texts but dared not undo everything without prior individual review: saying "everything done by unlawful authorities is void" was considered, but unlawful authorities did a lot of harmless and even useful things, like deciding on local speed limit, and they didn't want to just cancel everything.</blockquote>

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