This dimension names the broader legal tradition that a specific legal system descends from. Wikipedia notes that modern scholarship has moved toward "an understanding of legal systems as drawing from multiple legal traditions or patterns" rather than fixed categories. Browsing this way traces a legal system back to the parent tradition it grew out of.
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1. Customary law (Wikipedia)
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Customary law (also consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where: a certain legal practice is observed and the relevant actors consider it to be an opinion of law or necessity (opinio juris).
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