word | | Legal system |
| European | Korea, South | mixed legal system combining European civil law, Anglo-American law, and Chinese classical thought |
| European | Turkey | civil law system 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 | Vietnam | civil law system; note - the civil code of 2005 reflects a European style civil law |
| evolving | Kosovo | evolving 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 ... |
| example | Antarctica | ... US nationals, such as murder, may apply 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 ... |
| except | Albania | civil law system except in the northern rural areas where customary law known as the "Code of Leke" prevails |
| except | Canada | common law system except in Quebec where civil law based on the French civil code prevails |
| except | Northern Mariana Islands | US system applies, except for customs, wages, immigration laws, and taxation |
| except | Switzerland | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts, except for federal decrees of a general obligatory character |
| except | United States | ... law system based on English common law at the federal level; state legal systems based on common law except Louisiana, which is based on Napoleonic civil code; judicial review of legislative acts |
| existed | Djibouti | mixed legal system based primarily on the French civil code (as it existed in 1997) and Islamic religious law (in matters of family law and successions), and customary law |
| expected | Timor-Leste | ... system based on the Indonesian model; note - new penal code based on the Portuguese model was passed by Parliament and promulgated in 2009; new civil code expected to be promulgated in 2011 |
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