This dimension names the broader legal tradition that a specific legal system descends from. Wikipedia notes that modern scholarship has moved toward "an understanding of legal systems as drawing from multiple legal traditions or patterns" rather than fixed categories. Browsing this way traces a legal system back to the parent tradition it grew out of.
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1. Socialist law (Wikipedia)
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It is based on the civil law system, with major modifications and additions from Marxist-Leninist ideology.
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