Intro; Contents; Contributors; List of Tables; Introduction; Purpose: Review of Legal Reforms in Asian Emerging Economies; Methodology: Historical and Spatial Perspectives in Comparative Asian Law; Structure of This Book; References; Historical Review of Civil Law Changes; 1 Civil Law in the French Asian Colonies; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 French Civil Colonial Law as a Hybrid Legal Construction; 1.2.1 A Volatile and Divided Legal Construction; 1.2.2 The Hybridization of Local Civil Laws; 1.3 Land Law; 1.3.1 The Conflict Between Legal Systems; 1.3.2 The Enactment of a New Colonial Land Law

1.4 ConclusionReferences; 2 Contract Law in Myanmar: An Outcome of British Colonial Law; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Historical Circumstances; 2.3 Regression of Consideration; 2.3.1 Function of Securing Free Intention; 2.3.2 Function to Secure Legality; 2.4 Substantiation of Freedom of Contract; 2.4.1 Breach of Contract Rules in the 1872 Contract Act; 2.4.2 Undue Influence-The Result of Indian Case Law; 2.4.3 Legislative Modernization of the Rules on Defects; 2.5 Sale of Goods Act and Consumer Protection-Realization of Just Contracts; 2.5.1 History and Overview of the Sale of Goods Act

2.5.2 Doctrine of Implied Warranties2.5.3 Consumer Protection Law; 2.6 Future Issues; References; 3 The Role of the Japanese Civil Code in the Codification in the Kingdom of Siam; 3.1 Establishing a Nation-State; 3.2 Contribution of a Japanese Legal Adviser; 3.3 Draft Civil and Commercial Code (1919); 3.4 Intervention by Phraya Manava Rajasevi; 3.5 Civil and Commercial Code of 1923-24 (Old Text); 3.6 Civil and Commercial Code of 1925-28 (New Text); 3.6.1 Overall Framework and Composition of Book I (1925); 3.6.2 Overall Framework and Composition of Book II (1925)

3.6.3 Uniqueness of the Part on "Non-performance"3.7 Outlook for the Future; References; 4 The Pathway of Civil Law Development in Indonesia: Laws on Land; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Civil Law Construction in Colonial Period; 4.2.1 VOC Period; 4.2.2 British Period 1811-1816; 4.2.3 Netherland Indies Government Period; 4.2.4 Legal Dualism Legacy; 4.3 Development of Land Law After Independence; 4.3.1 The Constructing of National Law and Its Implication to Civil Code; 4.3.2 Developmental State and the Fallen of Adat; 4.4 Post Reform and New Development of Land Law; 4.4.1 The Period of Legal Rush

4.4.2 Recent Development on Land Law4.5 Reconstruction of Legislation Development; 4.6 Conclusion; References; Outcomes of Contemporary Legal Reform Assistance; 5 A Study on the Civil Code Revision: The 2015 Civil Code of Vietnam; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Fundamental Legal Philosophies; 5.2.1 General Approaches; 5.2.2 Structure of the Civil Code; 5.2.3 Fundamental Principles of the Civil Code; 5.3 Some Fundamental Regulations; 5.3.1 Real Rights; 5.3.2 Security for Performance of Obligations; 5.3.3 Contracts; 6 One Aspect of Civil Procedure Reform in Asia: Placing the Focus upon Vietnam