Tables / Law & Justice
Legal systems — what they have in common
Do the legal systems of A and B rest on the same foundations: civil law, common law, Islamic law, customary law, other religious law?
- How to read a cell
- Whether the two countries' legal traditions are built on the same foundations — for example both on civil law (codes, as in France), both on common law (judge-made law, as in England), or sharing Islamic or customary law. Hover to see how each system is described. “No data” means the source has no figure for that pair — the note in the cell says why; “not applicable” means the question does not arise for that pair.
- Reliability
- medium — each country's Factbook description is read for five components: civil, common, Islamic, customary and other religious law. 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'Anglo-American' law count as common law. 'Islamic religious law' counts once, as Islamic law. Only the current system is read (Afghanistan before 2021 is not). Where the Factbook has no usable description or one that contradicts the country's codes (Libya, Palestine, South Sudan, Togo), CountryPair uses a second source, named in the note and marked ≈. A shared component means a family resemblance, not compatible rules
- Answered
- 100 % of 39,402 directed cells have an answer; the rest say why not
- Second source
- 4 % of the cells (marked ≈) rest on a secondary source or an estimate because the main source has no figure — the note in each such cell names it; verify before relying on it
- Refresh
- yearly
- Credit
- Source: The World Factbook, CIA (public domain) — licence
- Source: CountryPair — licence
- Second source: JuriGlobe, University of Ottawa — licence
One country against all others
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The table
Rows are country A, columns country B; the two-letter codes are the usual country codes (AM = Armenia, DE = Germany…). Hover a cell to see the full value and its note. A dash means “no” or “nothing recorded”; a striped cell means either “no data” (the source has no figure for this pair — the note says why) or “not applicable” (the question makes no sense for this pair, for example a sea route for two landlocked countries). “All regions” on both sides shows the whole table.