Mixed systems as a category and the best known jurisdictions that blend civil law with common law, namely Roman-Dutch law, Quebec law and the small European and North American systems classified with them. A legal system belongs here when its cited article describes the system as mixed civil and common law or as Roman-Dutch in origin. It excludes mixed systems of Africa and Asia and the historical legal orders.
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Quebec law (Wikipedia)
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Quebec law is unique in Canada because Quebec is the only province in Canada to have a juridical legal system under which private law (including civil) matters are operated by French-heritage civil law. Public law (including criminal law) operates according to Canadian common law.
Roman-Dutch law (Wikipedia)
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Roman-Dutch law (Dutch: Rooms-Hollands recht, Afrikaans: Romeins-Hollandse reg) is an uncodified, scholarship-driven, and judge-made legal system based on Roman law as applied in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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