What's the point of Civil Code?

What's the point of Common Law? It puts too much power in the hands of lawyers, who are the only people who bother to read and memorize thousands of precedents and individual cases. Common Law court systems make a mockery of justice.

>>3384574
>who are the only people who bother to read and memorize thousands of precedents and individual cases
You don't memorize all the cases, just the important ones. You just need to do legal research for torts and contract law. Most real estate law is codified now though.

>>3384574
The idea behind it was that every citizen could have a passable knowledge of the law, as a remedy for the incomprehensibly opaque legal bureaucracies that sprung up towards the later stages of European monarchism.

When the Napoleonic code was first written, it fit in a single volume and was widely owned and read even among normies.

>>3384608
lolwut. the research can be cumbersome sometimes, but it doesn't change the role of the lawyer as a fiduciary of the client's interests.

>>3384699
this isn't something special about having a roman law system. ever heard of blackstone?