[Foundation-l] NYT: Who owns the law? (Noam Cohen)

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 22:22:36 UTC 2008


> Are all the countries which base their law on the english system still
> members of the commonwealth?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_systems#Common_law

It looks like the Republic of Ireland and parts of the US legal system
are non-commonwealth countries with English-based law. They were both
in the British Empire at one point, though. Nowhere else in that list
jumps out at me as being non-commonwealth, although I don't pretend to
have memorised a complete membership list.




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