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All Civil Law in the Middle East and Latin America

Legal systems of Latin America and of Arab states of the Gulf that adopted codified civil law modelled on French, Spanish or Egyptian codes, sometimes beside religious personal-status law. A legal system belongs here when its cited article describes the law of a Latin American region or of an Arab state as a civil law system. It excludes the Roman and ius commune foundations and states whose law is chiefly religious, which sit in the religious law groups.

All Civil Law in the Middle East and Latin America
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Law in South America (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Law in South America, Introduction, sentence 2
Quote, Has Member: Law in South America, Introduction, sentence 2
All countries but Guyana can be said to follow civil law systems, although recent developments in the law of Brazil suggest a move towards the stare decisis doctrine.
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