Religious Legal Systems

There are generally considered to be five legal systems in the world today: 

• Civil law
• Common law
• Customary law
• Religious law
• Mixed legal systems.

• They have their origin in the Roman legal tradition.
• Civil systems vary widely, both in procedure and substantive law, so conducting research on a particular nation's civil law system should include looking at that nation's specific system of law, but they do have so...

• They are based on patterns of behavior (or customs) that have come to be accepted as legal requirements or rules of conduct within a particular country.  
• The laws of customary legal systems are usually unwritten and are often dispensed by elders, passed down through...