Legal systems whose source of authority is a religious text or tradition rather than a secular legislature or judiciary. Belongs here: Religious Law as the general field, Canon Law, Halakha, Sharia and Hindu Law. The doctrinal and theological content of each tradition belongs to Divinity; what belongs here is the tradition treated as a functioning body of law, its sources, its courts and its legal reasoning. Does not belong here: a national system that applies religious law only within a personal-status carveout alongside a secular or common-law base, such as Israeli Law or Indian Legal System, grouped under mixed legal systems because the religious element there is one component of a larger hybrid rather than the whole system.
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1. Religious law (Wikipedia)
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Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions.
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