word | | Legal system |
| family | Syria | mixed legal system of civil and Islamic law (for family courts) |
| far | Akrotiri | ... 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 laws of the Republic of Cyprus |
| far | Dhekelia | ... 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 laws of the Republic of Cyprus |
| features | Kyrgyzstan | civil law system which includes features of French civil law and Russian Federation laws |
| February | 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 |
| federal | Guam | common law modeled on US system; US federal laws apply |
| federal | Puerto Rico | civil law system based on the Spanish civil code and within the framework of the US federal system |
| federal | Switzerland | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts, except for federal decrees of a general obligatory character |
| federal | United States | common 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 ... |
| Federation | Kazakhstan | civil law system influenced by Roman-Germanic law and by the theory and practice of the Russian Federation |
| Federation | Kyrgyzstan | civil law system which includes features of French civil law and Russian Federation laws |
| federation | Malaysia | mixed legal system of English common law, Islamic law, and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court at request of supreme head of the federation |
| final | Poland | civil law system; changes gradually being introduced as part of broader democratization process; limited judicial review of legislative acts, but rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal are final |
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