| The government is based on the French Napoleonic civil law system and traditional law. |
| People are brought under our power as slaves either by the civil law or by the jus gentium. |
| At present, most democratic civil law countries tend to uphold the doctrine of strict legality as an overarching principle. |
| Under the continental civil law, interpretation of the law by judges is not a major factor and the rule of precedent is not an important element. |
| Even to the pillars of our society, the days of hiding behind civil law, martial law and canon law are gone. |
| Thus any later law was recognised in both common law and civil law jurisdictions. |
