Talk:List of Micronations by Legal System

Wikipedia suggests there are three major legal systems today: civil law, common law, and religious law. The page has 'canon law' under civil law. Although Catholic canon law is heavily influenced by civil law, the same could not be said for other systems of religious law (Jewish halakah, Islamic shariah). So it makes more sense to me to put Catholic canon law under religious law than civil law. (Arguably, Church of England canon law would be influenced by common law to some degree, although ecclesiastical law was always the area in which the civil law tradition had the greatest impact in England.) Two other systems worthy of note -- socialist law -- very popular in the 20th century, although not so much now -- and 'customary' law. The later refers to various traditional or tribal laws around the world. This is distinct from religious law, in that tribal law does not always believe the law is required by the religion (rather than the tribe), many tribes with their own law may follow one religion, tribal law is independent of formal religious texts (religious law tends to refer to them.) Of course, all of this is kind of vague, so inevitably any division is going to involve a degree of arbitrariness, and whatever one person thinks makes sense another will object to. --Maratrean 10:31, February 24, 2011 (UTC)