word | | Legal system |
| laws | Wake Island | the laws of the US where applicable apply |
| laws | Wallis and Futuna | the laws of France where applicable apply |
| legal | Antarctica | ... all areas between 60 and 90 degrees south latitude, is subject to a number of relevant legal instruments and authorization procedures adopted by the states party to the Antarctic Treaty; note - US ... |
| legal | Argentina | mixture of US and West European legal systems; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| legal | Cambodia | ... Cambodia (UNTAC) period, royal decrees, and acts of the legislature with influences of customary law and remnants of communist legal theory; increasing influence of common law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| legal | Cape Verde | based on the legal system of Portugal; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| legal | China | based on civil law system; derived from Soviet and continental civil code legal principles; legislature retains power to interpret statutes; constitution ambiguous on judicial review of legislation; party organs exercise authority over ... |
| legal | Cuba | based on Spanish civil law and influenced by American legal concepts with large elements of Communist legal theory; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| legal | Czech Republic | civil law system based on Austro-Hungarian codes; legal code modified to bring it in line with European Union obligations and to expunge Marxist-Leninist legal theory; has not accepted compulsory ICJ ... |
| legal | Eritrea | primary basis is the Ethiopian legal code of 1957 with revisions; new civil, commercial, and penal codes have not yet been promulgated; government also issues unilateral proclamations setting laws and policies; also ... |
| legal | Honduras | ... Roman and Spanish civil law with increasing influence of English common law; recent judicial reforms include abandoning Napoleonic legal codes in favor of the oral adversarial system; accepts ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| legal | Hungary | based on the German-Austrian legal system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
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