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

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> 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.
>
>   

What leaps out at me from that text is the phrase:

"In addition to these countries, several others have adapted the common 
law system into a mixed system."

To me these would be termed based on the English system, if we make the 
assumption that "common law" == "the English system".

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen