NATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEMS

NATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEMS

1. COMMON LAW

   • Include
     • Statutes
       • Could have
         • Contradiction or ambiguous decisions
       • Allowed by
         • Goverment
     • judicial decisions
       • Allow
         • Particular statute and statutory provision
   • Source
     • decisions in cases by judges
   • Developed in
     • England
   • influenced by
   • Some countries that base their legal system on a common law
     • Canada
     • Ireland
     • Jamaica
     • Uganda
     • Bahamas
     • United States
     • Australia

2. CIVIL LAW

   • Influenced by
     • Cannon law
     • Islamic law
   • Scholars of comparative law and economists subdivide civil law
     • French civil law:
     • German civil law
     • Scandinavian civil law
     • Chinese law
   • countries that base their legal system on a codified civil law
     • Colombia
     • Angola
     • Germany
     • Chile
     • Argentina
     • Brazil

3. RELIGIOUS AND SHARIA LAW

   • main kinds of religious law
     • Halakha in Judaism
       • followed by orthodox and conservative Jews
     • Sharia in Islam
       • It is based on both divine law, derived from the Qur'an and Sunnah
       • governs a number of Islamic countries
         • Iran
         • Saudi Arabia
     • canon law in some Christian groups
   • refers to
     • religious system or document
       • being used as
         • legal source
   • based on
     • legal precedent and reasoning by analogy
   • some countries
     • Iran
     • Libya
     • Oman
     • Yemen
     • Egypt

4. PLURALISTIC SYSTEMS

   • Civil law and canon law
     • countries
       • Vatican City/Holy See
   • Civil law and common law
     • countries
   • Civil law and sharia law
     • counntries
   • Common law and sharia law
     • Countries

5. HYBRID LAW

   • is
     • staturoy
   • mixture
     • Religious law
     • common law
     • Civil law
   • decisions by
     • High court
     • Supreme court

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