About Law Compare

Rebuild of the idea "International lawyer comparer": compare laws between countries using Wikipedia, kept simple.

Legal system families

• Civil law: written codes are the main source of law (France, Germany, most of Latin America).
• Common law: judges' past decisions (precedent) carry the force of law (UK, US, India).
• Islamic law: sharia shapes some or all areas, often family and inheritance law.
• Customary law: long-standing local traditions recognized by courts.
• Many countries are mixed and show more than one family.

Families are detected automatically from each country's summary in Wikipedia's list, so they are a guide, not a ruling. Countries not in that list show "Not listed".

Sources

• Wikidata Query Service (CC0): government, constitution, legislature, highest court, ages, languages, population.
• Wikipedia: List of national legal systems (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not legal advice. For a real legal question, talk to a lawyer licensed in that country.