Legal reception

In legal theory, reception refers to the process by which one legal system borrows individual rules, institutions or even whole areas of law from another and implements them as its own. Often, the state where the reception occurs also adopts the particular style or methodology of the system which served as the model. The phenomenon is almost ubiquitous in legal history and has been described using a variety of terms, including "legal transplants", "diffusion", "legal transfer", "influence", "inspiration", "export" and "cross-fertilization".