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Law in South America

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The law of South America is one of the most unified in the world: all countries but Guyana can be said to follow civil law systems, though recent developments in the law of Brazil suggest a move toward the doctrine of stare decisis. 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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Civil Law 1
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Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

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1. Wikipedia: Law in South America
All countries but Guyana can be said to follow civil law systemsView the Source
Law in South America (Wikipedia)
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