word | | Legal system |
| law | Croatia | civil law system based on Yugoslav civil codes; note - Croatian legislation is changing the former Yugoslav legal model |
| law | Cuba | civil law system based on Spanish civil code |
| law | Curacao | based on Dutch civil law system with some English common law influence |
| law | Cyprus | mixed legal system of English common law and civil law with Greek Orthodox religious law influence |
| law | Czech Republic | civil law system based on former Austro-Hungarian civil codes and socialist theory; note - legislation is actively modernizing the legal system |
| law | Denmark | civil law; judicial review of legislative acts |
| law | 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 |
| law | Dominica | common law based on the English model |
| law | Dominican Republic | civil law system based on the French civil code; Criminal Procedures Code modified in 2004 to include important elements of an accusatory system |
| law | Ecuador | civil law based on the Chilean civil code with modifications |
| law | Egypt | mixed legal system based on Napoleonic civil law and Islamic religious law; judicial review by Supreme Court and Council of State (oversees validity of administrative decisions) |
| law | El Salvador | civil law system with minor common law influence; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court |
| law | Equatorial Guinea | mixed system of civil and customary law |
| law | Eritrea | mixed legal system of civil, customary, and Islamic religious law |
| law | Estonia | civil law system |
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