word | | Legal system |
| civil | Wallis and Futuna | French civil law |
| civil | World | ... the legal systems of nearly all countries are generally modeled upon elements of five main types: civil law (including French law, the Napoleonic Code, Roman law, Roman-Dutch law, and Spanish law ... |
| civil | Zimbabwe | mixed legal system of English common law, Roman-Dutch civil law, and customary law |
| claims | Turkey | ... various European legal systems notably the Swiss civil code; note - member of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), although Turkey claims limited derogations on the ratified European Convention on Human Rights |
| classical | Korea, South | mixed legal system combining European civil law, Anglo-American law, and Chinese classical thought |
| Code | Albania | civil law system except in the northern rural areas where customary law known as the "Code of Leke" prevails |
| code | Argentina | civil law system based on West European legal systems; note - efforts at civil code reform begun in the mid-1980s has stagnated |
| code | Aruba | civil law system based on the Dutch civil code |
| Code | 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 |
| code | Brazil | civil law; note - a new Brazilian civil law code was enacted in 2002 replacing the 1916 code |
| code | Canada | common law system except in Quebec where civil law based on the French civil code prevails |
| code | Comoros | mixed legal system of Islamic religious law, the French civil code of 1975, and customary law |
| code | Costa Rica | civil law system based on Spanish civil code; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court |
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