word | | Legal system |
| legal | United States | common law system based on English common law at the federal level; state legal systems based on common law except Louisiana, which is based on Napoleonic civil code; judicial review of legislative ... |
| legal | Vanuatu | mixed legal system of English common law, French law, and customary law |
| legal | World | the legal systems of nearly all countries are generally modeled upon elements of five main types: civil law (including French law, the Napoleonic Code, Roman law, Roman-Dutch law, and Spanish law ... |
| legal | Yemen | mixed legal system of Islamic law, English common law, and customary law |
| legal | Zambia | mixed legal system of English common law and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in an ad hoc constitutional council |
| legal | Zimbabwe | mixed legal system of English common law, Roman-Dutch civil law, and customary law |
| legislation | China | civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes; constitution ambiguous on judicial review of legislation |
| legislation | Croatia | civil law system based on Yugoslav civil codes; note - Croatian legislation is changing the former Yugoslav legal model |
| legislation | Czech Republic | civil law system based on former Austro-Hungarian civil codes and socialist theory; note - legislation is actively modernizing the legal system |
| legislation | New Zealand | common law system, based on English model, with special legislation and land courts for the Maori |
| legislative | Algeria | mixed legal system of French civil law and Islamic law; judicial review of legislative acts in ad hoc Constitutional Council composed of various public officials including several Supreme Court justices |
| legislative | Angola | civil legal system based on Portuguese civil law; no judicial review of legislative acts |
| legislative | Austria | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts by the Constitutional Court |
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