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This image should be changed to reflect reality. Somalia has no law.

Cyprus is common law, not civil law, and this applies both to the Republic, and the TRNC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.188.225.61 (talk) 11:54, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Both Jordan and Syria are civil law and not religious law countries, the map is inaccurate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.186.229.136 (talk) 23:22, 12 November 2008 (UTC) Niether Libya nor Morocco is Sharia Law they are Civil Law. This map is misleading. Hakeem.gadi (talk) 14:00, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Inaccuracy?

It looks like the Indonesia-controled part of Papua has a common law system, unlike Indonesia. Is that correct? --Sukkoth 07:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The illustration is erroneous. The Philippines is a mixed common law and civil law jurisdiction.~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.97.59.91 (talk) 13:18, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka should be either Common Law or Common and Civil Law, not Customary Law. 123.2.228.187 (talk) 07:49, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Vatican City

Wouldn't it use canon law? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.148.24.145 (talk) 21:20, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Canon law is basically civil law since it is inspired by the roman tradition.134.21.37.90 (talk) 09:33, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Hong Kong

Isn't it still using common law? Nicholas.tan (talk) 15:19, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:34, 27 April 2014 (UTC).

Map colouring

Why not use green for religious law (as green is the colour of Islam, and religious law as used by contemporary states almost invariably means Shari'ah?) --GCarty (talk) 18:00, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Someone removed the table.

I'd revert it but I don't know how to do that for an image. 64.7.151.176 (talk) 02:22, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Mongolia

Mongolia is a Civil Law country.--MathFacts (talk) 11:16, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Kuwait

Kuwait is a Civil Law country. Here is an excerpt from http://www.al-ayoub.org/legal.html :

"The State of Kuwait follows the civil law system or what is commonly known as the Latin system. The historical origins of Kuwaiti Law are from the Egyptian and French codes. Article 2 of the Constitution provides that Islamic Sharia forms a major source of law. It is not however the exclusive source. Therefore, it is not essential for a law to be totally in conformity with Islamic Sharia in order for it to be constitutional. "

Someone please edit the map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Htg (talk • contribs) 10:27, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

stripes in current 19:10, 17 March 2011

I find the stripes added in this revision uninformative. The legend does not describe what the stripes are to mean (for example in indonesia and mozambique, there are black stripes. there is no black color in the legend). I'd like to suggest reverting the image to the previous version, or else changing the legend to include all the colorations in the new map. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.159.46 (talk) 14:58, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Bangladesh

Bangladesh is not an islamic law country, it is common law. Please fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.200.60.51 (talk) 09:48, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Islamic vs. Civil Law

All Arab countries except Saudi Arabia and Oman have civil codes based on the Egyptian Civil Code (see for example this article). The way these countries are colored now appears to be completely random. Obiara (talk) 22:06, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Libya

I note that the map is older than the Libyan civil war in 2011. Maybe the status of Libya should be checked? Electron9 (talk) 17:40, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Philippines

If you would look at these articles: List_of_country_legal_systems and [[1]], it is stated that the Philippines has codified mixed systems in which civil law is the background law but has had its public law heavily influenced by common law and is based on Spanish law; influenced by U.S. common law after 1898 Spanish and Philippine-American Wars. I think the Philippines should be colored brown because of this. And since I don't know what to do, can somebody please help me? Thanks. Sairyu (talk) 01:57, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

BANGLADESH

Bangladesh follows common law, not Islamic law. Please correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.234.48.55 (talk) 03:15, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Bangladesh is a secular country with common law

Bangladesh dosen't have Sharia law. Pakistan is shown in red although its constitution pledges to uphold Sharia and is full of religious references. But Bangladesh has a long tradition of secularism. There some religious laws when it comes of family affairs, marriage or inheritance, and that is similar to most other South Asian countries including India.

Please correct it on the map.--111.221.0.2 (talk) 18:46, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

old map

south sudan isnt on here. that is all — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.172.114.52 (talk) 08:23, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

colours

Take some pity on poor colour-blind people. some of us cannot make out which countries have common, bijudicial or customary law! Colours are all too similar! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.160.74 (talk) 12:22, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Over at talk:Common law

"Bangladesh ... it's a common law system. Morocco has a dual legal system" All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:36, 27 April 2014 (UTC).