History of the Judicial System of the Philippines

CHAPTER I

In order to understand fully the early judicial system prior to 1565, we should look at the early history of the Philippines even its pre – history. Those who would want to know our country can glimpse into its history, learn the folklore, the opinions, beliefs, longings, usages, tradition, idiosyncrasies, arts, costumes, superstitions, language, culture and civilization. Scholars reckon to the earliest in the islands to be the dawn men who lived 250,000 ago. They were massively built thickly haired. They came to the country by land bridges before the glacial epoch. Together with pre – historic mammals the dawn men roamed until they disappeared altogether. Only archeological findings around Laguna de Bay in Luzon attest to this early settlers. The glacial and interglacial periods which melted the glacial caps of the North Pole covered low land which is now the Philippines were separated from the rest Asia and also divided the once big mass into islands.