word | | Legal system |
| Dutch | Guyana | common law system, based on the English model, with some Roman-Dutch civil law influence |
| Dutch | Indonesia | civil law system based on the Roman-Dutch model and influenced by customary law |
| Dutch | Lesotho | mixed legal system of English common law and Roman-Dutch law; judicial review of legislative acts in High Court and Court of Appeal |
| Dutch | Namibia | mixed legal system of uncodified civil law based on Roman-Dutch law and customary law |
| Dutch | Sint Maarten | based on Dutch civil law system with some English common law influence |
| Dutch | South Africa | mixed legal system of Roman-Dutch civil law, English common law, and customary law |
| Dutch | Sri Lanka | mixed legal system of Roman-Dutch civil law, English common law, and Jaffna Tamil customary law |
| Dutch | Suriname | civil law system influenced by Dutch civil law; note - the Commissie Nieuw Surinaamse Burgerlijk Wetboek completed drafting a new civil code in February 2009 |
| Dutch | World | ... elements of five main types: civil law (including French law, the Napoleonic Code, Roman law, Roman-Dutch law, and Spanish law); common law (including United States law); customary law; mixed or pluralistic ... |
| Dutch | Zimbabwe | mixed legal system of English common law, Roman-Dutch civil law, and customary law |
| early | Guinea-Bissau | mixed legal system of civil law (influenced by the early French Civil Code) and customary law |
| ECHR | 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 |
| effect | Kosovo | ... legal system; mixture of applicable Kosovo law, UNMIK laws and regulations, and applicable laws of the Former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia that were in effect in Kosovo as of 22 March 1989 |
| efforts | Argentina | civil law system based on West European legal systems; note - efforts at civil code reform begun in the mid-1980s has stagnated |
Home 
Fields
World Records
World Dictionary
Geographic Names
Fields History
Chiefs of State
Intl. Organizations
Intl. Environmental Agree.
Other References
Notes and Definitions
