word | | Legal system |
| expeditions | Antarctica | ... responsibilities; Public Law 95-541, the US Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, as amended in 1996, requires expeditions from the US to Antarctica to notify, in advance, the Office of Oceans, Room 5805 ... |
| expert | Antarctica | ... Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings - which include consultative member nations, non-consultative member nations, observer organizations, and expert organizations; decisions from these meetings are carried out by these member nations (with respect to ... |
| expunge | Slovakia | civil law system based on Austro-Hungarian codes; note - legal code modified to comply with the obligations of Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe and to expunge Marxist-Leninist legal system |
| extraterritorially | Antarctica | ... US law, including certain criminal offenses by or against 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 ... |
| Falkland | 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 |
| family | Belarus | civil law system; note - nearly all major codes (civil, civil procedure, criminal, criminal procedure, family and labor) have been revised and came into force in 1999 or 2000 |
| family | 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 |
| family | Hong Kong | mixed legal system of common law based on the English model and Chinese customary law (in matters of family and land tenure) |
| family | 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 |
| family | Madagascar | civil law system based on the old French civil code and customary law in matters of marriage, family, and obligation |
| family | Qatar | mixed legal system of civil law and Islamic law (in family and personal matters) |
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