word | | Legal system |
| civil | 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 |
| civil | Colombia | civil law system influenced by the Spanish and French civil codes |
| civil | Comoros | mixed legal system of Islamic religious law, the French civil code of 1975, and customary law |
| civil | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | civil legal system based on Belgian version of French civil law |
| civil | Congo, Republic of the | mixed legal system of French civil law and customary law |
| civil | Costa Rica | civil law system based on Spanish civil code; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court |
| civil | Cote d'Ivoire | civil law system based on the French civil code; judicial review in the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court |
| civil | Croatia | civil law system based on Yugoslav civil codes; note - Croatian legislation is changing the former Yugoslav legal model |
| civil | Cuba | civil law system based on Spanish civil code |
| civil | Curacao | based on Dutch civil law system with some English common law influence |
| civil | Cyprus | mixed legal system of English common law and civil law with Greek Orthodox religious law influence |
| civil | Czech Republic | civil law system based on former Austro-Hungarian civil codes and socialist theory; note - legislation is actively modernizing the legal system |
| civil | Denmark | civil law; judicial review of legislative acts |
| civil | Dhekelia | 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 ... |
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