word | | Legal system |
| rooted | Honduras | rooted in 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 ... |
| royal | Cambodia | ... law mixture of French-influenced codes from the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) period, royal decrees, and acts of the legislature with influences of customary law and remnants of communist ... |
| Royal | Guernsey | the laws of the UK where applicable apply; justice is administered by the Royal Court |
| Royal | Jersey | the laws of the UK where applicable apply and local statutes; justice is administered by the Royal Court |
| rulings | Poland | ... being gradually introduced as part of broader democratization process; limited judicial review of legislative acts, but rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal are final; court decisions can be appealed to the European Court ... |
| Russian | Kyrgyzstan | based on French and Russian laws; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| Science | Antarctica | ... Act carries penalties of up to $10,000 in fines and one year in prison; the National Science Foundation and Department of Justice share enforcement responsibilities; Public Law 95-541, the US Antarctic Conservation ... |
| section | Antarctica | ... extraterritorially; some US laws directly 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 ... |
| secular | Saudi Arabia | based on Sharia law, several secular codes have been introduced; commercial disputes handled by special committees; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| Security | Moldova | ... civil law system; Constitutional Court reviews legality of legislative acts and governmental decisions; accepts many UN and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) documents; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| Security | Slovakia | ... Hungarian codes; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; legal code modified to comply with the obligations of Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and to expunge Marxist-Leninist legal theory |
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