Law of Canada
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The legal system of Canada is pluralist: its foundations lie in the English common law system, the French civil law system, and Indigenous law systems developed by the various Indigenous Nations.
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, west of Parliament Hill
Cover of the Constitution Act, 1867
Copies of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Canadian Criminal Cases collection
Legal system
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A legal system is a set of legal norms, institutions, and processes by which those norms are applied, often within a particular jurisdiction or community. It may also be referred to as a legal order.
Law of Canada
…The legal system of Canada is pluralist: its foundations lie in the English common law system (inherited from its period as a colony of the British Empire), the French…
Code of Ur-Nammu, setting forth the legal system that governed Ur in the third millennium BC.
Diagram showing the increasing complexity of translation as the legal systems involved become more disparate.