You’d be simply incorrect if you claim that planning and mostly-non-violent dispute resolution didn’t happen in non-literate tribes, or before the Magna Carta (or before the Thracians, or before the Israelites, or pick any case you like as “the start of civil law”).
I meant to assert the opposite—that what we now know as civil courts are a formalization of an investigative process that must have been happening since the beginning of descriptive language, before people had the idea of courts to refer to, and that we mainly need a distinct idea of it in response to interference with investigative processes as such, motivated by commitments to antinormativity.
I meant to assert the opposite—that what we now know as civil courts are a formalization of an investigative process that must have been happening since the beginning of descriptive language, before people had the idea of courts to refer to, and that we mainly need a distinct idea of it in response to interference with investigative processes as such, motivated by commitments to antinormativity.