word | | Legal system |
| civil | Akrotiri | the Sovereign Base Area Administration has its own court system to deal with civil and criminal matters; laws applicable to the Cypriot population are, as far as possible, the same as the ... |
| civil | Albania | civil law system except in the northern rural areas where customary law known as the "Code of Leke" prevails |
| civil | 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 |
| civil | Andorra | mixed legal system of civil and customary law with canon (religious) law influences |
| civil | Angola | civil legal system based on Portuguese civil law; no judicial review of legislative acts |
| civil | Antarctica | ... apply to Antarctica; for example, the Antarctic Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. section 2401 et seq., provides civil and criminal penalties for the following activities unless authorized by regulation of statute: the taking ... |
| civil | Argentina | civil law system based on West European legal systems; note - efforts at civil code reform begun in the mid-1980s has stagnated |
| civil | Armenia | civil law system |
| civil | Aruba | civil law system based on the Dutch civil code |
| civil | Austria | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts by the Constitutional Court |
| civil | Azerbaijan | civil law system |
| civil | Belarus | civil law system; note - nearly all major codes (civil, civil procedure, criminal, criminal procedure, family and labor) have been revised and came into force in 1999 or 2000 |
| civil | Belgium | civil law system based on the French Civil Code; note - Belgian law continues to be modified in conformance with the legislative norms mandated by the European Union; judicial review of legislative acts |
| civil | Benin | civil law system modeled largely on the French system and some customary law |
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