Ancient and historical legal orders and legal-philosophical traditions that do not fit a modern family: the cuneiform laws of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greek law, the Old French customary law, the Chinese Legalist school and the traditional Chinese law it shaped, and the general idea of western law. A legal system belongs here when its cited article describes a past legal order or a school of legal thought. It excludes the law of a living state.
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Ancient Greek law (Wikipedia)
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Ancient Greek laws consist of the laws and legal institutions of ancient Greece.
Babylonian law (Wikipedia)
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Babylonian law is a subset of cuneiform law that has received particular study due to the large amount of archaeological material that has been found for it.
Cuneiform law (Wikipedia)
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Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites.
Legalism (Chinese philosophy) (Wikipedia)
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Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: fǎjiā) refers to an intellectual, political, and philosophical orientation beginning in the Warring States period of China.
Old French law (Wikipedia)
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Old French law, referred to in French as l'Ancien Droit, was the law of the Kingdom of France until the French Revolution.
Political naturalism (Wikipedia)
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Political naturalism is a political ideology and legal system positing that there is a natural law, just and obvious to all, which crosses ideologies, faiths, and personal thinking, and that naturally guaranties justice.
Traditional Chinese law (Wikipedia)
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Traditional Chinese law refers to the legal system including laws, regulations, and rules used in Sinosphere.
Western law (Wikipedia)
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Western law comprises the laws, jurisprudence, legal traditions, systems, norms, and culture of Western Civilization and Western countries, primarily with roots in Roman law, Germanic law, Biblical and Mosaic Law, and Canon Law, but encompassing many other subtypes and influences throughout Western History.
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