Legal system

Legal system the body or system of rules recognized by a community that are enforceable by established process.
In general, legal systems around the world can be split between civil law jurisdictions, on the one hand, and systems using common law, on the other.
The term civil law, referring to a legal system, should not be confused with civil law as a group of legal subjects, as distinguished from criminal law or public law. A third type of legal system — still accepted by some countries in part, or even in whole — is religious law, based on scriptures and interpretations.