word | | Legal system |
| Court | Paraguay | civil law system with influences from Argentine, Spanish, Roman, and French civil law models; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court of Justice |
| Court | Rwanda | mixed legal system of civil law, based on German and Belgian models, and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court |
| Court | Senegal | civil law system based on French law; judicial review of legislative acts in Constitutional Court |
| Court | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | the laws of the UK where applicable apply; the senior magistrate from the Falkland Islands presides over the Magistrates Court |
| Court | Trinidad and Tobago | English common law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court |
| Court | Tunisia | mixed legal system of civil law, based on the French civil code, and Islamic law; some judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court in joint session |
| Court | Turkey | ... based on 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 ... |
| courts | New Zealand | common law system, based on English model, with special legislation and land courts for the Maori |
| courts | Syria | mixed legal system of civil and Islamic law (for family courts) |
| covering | Lebanon | mixed legal system of civil law based on the French civil code and religious laws covering personal status, marriage, divorce, and other family relations of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities |
| criminal | 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 ... |
| criminal | Antarctica | ... authorization procedures adopted by the states party to the Antarctic Treaty; note - US law, including certain criminal offenses by or against US nationals, such as murder, may apply extraterritorially; some US laws ... |
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