Cameroon's legal system is a mixture of the French civil law system and English common law, a legacy of the period after the First World War when Cameroon was administered by France and the United Kingdom, first as a League of Nations mandate and then as a United Nations trust territory from 1916 to 1961. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four major legal traditions: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these.
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View the SourceAlexis Dipanda Mouelle (Wikipedia)
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was a Cameroonian magistrate
Constitution of Cameroon (Wikipedia)
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The Constitution outlines the rights guaranteed to Cameroonian citizens, the symbols and official institutions o
Ben Duala Ekoko, Wikipedia
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Category:Cameroonian judges
Maurice Kamga (Wikipedia)
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Category:Cameroonian judges
World Factbook archive, Cameroon profile
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mixed system of English common law, French civil law, and customary law
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