The legal system of Sudan has passed through several distinct phases since independence. Its early post-independence courts were staffed largely by British-trained lawyers and judges working within a common law, precedent-based framework. In 1969 the government of Jaafar Nimeiry moved toward an Egyptian-style civil code, then repealed those codes in 1973 and reverted to common law, before pressure from the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1970s led toward Islamic legal frameworks. In September 1983 Nimeiry issued the September Laws, making sharia the law of the land, and each shift reflected the political priorities of the moment rather than a single consistent legal philosophy. 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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Legal Family Connections
In Legal Family
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.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sudan, found in there.
Sources
1. Legal system of Sudan (Wikipedia)
Legal system of Sudan (Wikipedia)
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