Legal Systems

The legal traditions and families that structure how a jurisdiction makes, interprets and applies law: civil law, common law, religious law, customary law, mixed and hybrid systems, and the historical socialist law family. Each entry here is a tradition or a national legal system standing for one, not a single statute or ruling. Belongs here: a named legal tradition (Common Law, Civil Law), a national system built on one or blending several (Law of the United States, South African Law), a body of religious law treated as a legal system in its own right (Sharia, Halakha, Canon Law). Does not belong here: a single code or statute, which is a code entity, a single doctrine drawn from a tradition, which is a doctrine entity, or the religious content of a tradition, which is Divinity's subject rather than law's.