word | | Legal system |
| civil | Bhutan | civil law based on Buddhist religious law |
| civil | Bolivia | civil law system with influences from Roman, Spanish, canon (religious), French, and indigenous law |
| civil | Bosnia and Herzegovina | civil law system; Constitutional Court review of legislative acts |
| civil | Botswana | mixed legal system of civil law influenced by the Roman-Dutch model and also customary and common law |
| civil | Brazil | civil law; note - a new Brazilian civil law code was enacted in 2002 replacing the 1916 code |
| civil | Bulgaria | civil law |
| civil | Burkina Faso | civil law based on the French model and customary law |
| civil | Burundi | mixed legal system of Belgian civil law and customary law |
| civil | Cambodia | civil law system (influenced by the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia) customary law, Communist legal theory, and common law |
| civil | Cameroon | mixed legal system of English common law, French civil law, and customary law |
| civil | Canada | common law system except in Quebec where civil law based on the French civil code prevails |
| civil | Cape Verde | civil law system of Portugal |
| civil | Central African Republic | civil law system based on the French model |
| civil | Chad | mixed legal system of civil and customary law |
| civil | Chile | civil law system influenced by several West European civil legal systems; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court |
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