NATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEMS

COMMON LAW
1. Include
  1. Statutes
    1. Could have
      1. Contradiction or ambiguous decisions
    2. Allowed by
      1. Goverment
  2. judicial decisions
    2. Allow
      1. Particular statute and statutory provision
2. Source
  1. decisions in cases by judges
3. Developed in
  1. England
4. influenced by
5. Some countries that base their legal system on a common law
  1. Canada
  2. Ireland
  3. Jamaica
  4. Uganda
  5. Bahamas
  6. United States
  7. Australia
CIVIL LAW
1. Influenced by
  1. Cannon law
  2. Islamic law
2. Scholars of comparative law and economists subdivide civil law
  1. French civil law:
  2. German civil law
  3. Scandinavian civil law
  4. Chinese law
3. countries that base their legal system on a codified civil law
  1. Colombia
  2. Angola
  3. Germany
  4. Chile
  5. Argentina
  6. Brazil
RELIGIOUS AND SHARIA LAW
1. main kinds of religious law
  1. Halakha in Judaism
    1. followed by orthodox and conservative Jews
  2. Sharia in Islam
    1. It is based on both divine law, derived from the Qur'an and Sunnah
    2. governs a number of Islamic countries
      1. Iran
      2. Saudi Arabia
  3. canon law in some Christian groups
2. refers to
  1. religious system or document
    1. being used as
      1. legal source
3. based on
  1. legal precedent and reasoning by analogy
4. some countries
  1. Iran
  2. Libya
  3. Oman
  4. Yemen
  5. Egypt
PLURALISTIC SYSTEMS
1. Civil law and canon law
  1. countries
    1. Vatican City/Holy See
2. Civil law and common law
  1. countries
3. Civil law and sharia law
  1. counntries
4. Common law and sharia law
  1. Countries
HYBRID LAW
1. is
  1. staturoy
2. mixture
  1. Religious law
  2. common law
  3. Civil law
3. decisions by
  1. High court
  2. Supreme court

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