{
    "api": "YAML JSON TOON Database",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "format": "json",
    "dataset": {
        "slug": "legal-systems-common-vs-civil",
        "title": "Legal Systems",
        "description": "Major legal systems around the world.",
        "summary": "The major families of legal systems: common law, civil law, religious law, customary law and mixed systems, with the origin and characteristics of each, plus socialist legal systems as a historical and residual family.",
        "use_when": [
            "You need to place a country's legal system in its family or explain how they differ.",
            "You are comparing how legal rules are made and applied."
        ],
        "caveats": [
            "Most countries have mixed elements; the families are tendencies, not strict categories.",
            "Many systems have changed substantially, particularly the former socialist legal systems."
        ],
        "related": [
            "contract-formation-elements",
            "criminal-law-terms",
            "major-us-constitutional-amendments"
        ],
        "category": "Law",
        "category_slug": "law",
        "tags": "law,legal-systems,jurisdiction",
        "view_count": 0,
        "entry_count": 6,
        "fields": [
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "system",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Common Law"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "origin",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "England"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "characteristics",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Judge-made precedent, adversarial procedure."
            }
        ]
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "system": "Common Law",
            "origin": "England",
            "characteristics": "Judge-made precedent, adversarial procedure."
        },
        {
            "system": "Civil Law",
            "origin": "Roman law",
            "characteristics": "Codified statutes, inquisitorial procedure."
        },
        {
            "system": "Religious Law",
            "origin": "Religious texts",
            "characteristics": "Based on religious doctrines and interpretations."
        },
        {
            "system": "Customary Law",
            "origin": "Local customs",
            "characteristics": "Derived from long-established community practices."
        },
        {
            "system": "Mixed System",
            "origin": "Multiple sources",
            "characteristics": "Combines elements of common, civil, or customary law."
        },
        {
            "system": "Socialist Legal System",
            "origin": "Soviet law",
            "characteristics": "State-centered, with law subordinate to party policy and a strong role for public ownership; largely transformed since the 1990s."
        }
    ]
}