id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6051 List of national legal systems - Wikipedia .html text/html 8383 1185 64 German civil law: in Germany, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Greece, Portugal and its former colonies, Turkey, and East Asian countries including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (Republic of China); Common law is practiced in Canada (excluding Quebec), Australia, New Zealand, most of the United Kingdom (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland), South Africa, Ireland, India (excluding Goa),[citation needed] Pakistan, Hong Kong, the United States (on state levels excluding Louisiana), Bangladesh, and many other places. Federal courts and 49 states use the legal system based on English common law, which has diverged somewhat since the mid-nineteenth century in that they look to each other's cases for guidance on issues of first impression and rarely, if ever, look at contemporary cases on the same issue in the UK or the Commonwealth. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6051.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6051.txt