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The celebrated jurist X.L. Ixtralargin periodised the development of Coscivian law thus: | The celebrated jurist X.L. Ixtralargin periodised the development of Coscivian law thus: | ||
*'''Fundamental stage''' - Law as a system for peaceful {{wp|conflict resolution}} between tribes and clans, beginning with the Lawful Commonwealth. | *'''Fundamental stage''' - Law as a system for peaceful {{wp|conflict resolution}} between tribes and clans, beginning with the Lawful Commonwealth. | ||
*'''Civil stage''' - Law as a system for maintaining a state society, beginning in the Iron Age with the consolidation of the Coscivian Empire as a territorial state in competition with other states. | *'''Civil stage''' - Law as a system for maintaining a state society, beginning in the Iron Age with the consolidation of the Coscivian Empire as a territorial state in competition with other states. Distinctions between criminal and civil law emerge. | ||
*'''Justicial stage''' - Law as a system for realising and upholding social values, influenced by [[Shaftonism]], organised Coscivian religions, and later Christianity, with more transcendental, abstract, and personalist notions of rights and justice. | *'''Justicial stage''' - Law as a system for realising and upholding social values, influenced by [[Shaftonism]], organised Coscivian religions, and later Christianity, with more transcendental, abstract, and personalist notions of rights and justice. | ||
*'''Constitutional stage''' - Law as a system for ordering and balancing competing interests in a complex society, beginning in the Early Modern period. | *'''Constitutional stage''' - Law as a system for ordering and balancing competing interests in a complex society, beginning in the Early Modern period. | ||