3 Kinds of Legal Systems that exist in Different Countries across the world

Legal systems that exist in different countries across the world are as follows:
1) Common Law:
The basis for common law is tradition, past practices, and legal precedents set by the courts
through interpretations of statutes, legal legislation, and past rulings. Common law seeks
interpretation through the past decisions of higher courts which interpret the same statutes or
apply established and customary principles of law to a similar set of facts.
Common law refers to law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar
tribunals (called case law), rather than through legislative statutes or executive action, and to
corresponding legal systems that rely on precedential case law.
The body of precedent is called common law and it binds future decisions. In future cases,
when parties disagree on what the law is, an idealized common law court looks to past
precedential decisions of relevant courts. If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the
court is bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision (this principle is known as
stare decisis). If however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct
from all previous cases (called a matter of first impression), judges have the authority and
duty to make law by creating precedent. Thereafter, the new decision becomes precedent, and
will bind future courts.
2) Code Law:

Code Law is based on an all-inclusive system of written rules (codes) of law. Under code law,
the legal system is generally divided into three separate codes: commercial, civil, and
criminal. The civil law system, also called a codified legal system, is based on a detailed set
of laws that make up a code. Rules for conducting business transactions are a part of the
code.
It is also known as civil law, this is based on a very detailed set of laws that are organized into
codes. These codes specify what constitutes legal behavior. Code law or Civil law has its
roots in the Roman law and more than 80 countries of the world, including Germany, France,
Japan, Russia, most of Europe, Latin America, China, Taiwan and South Korea operate with
this Civil law system. The judicial courts rely upon the detailed written legal codes rather
than interpretation of tradition, precedent and customs. The courts under this system do not
have much flexibility, as compared to the courts of common law system.
3) Theocratic Law:

This system is based on religious teachings, as they are enshrined in the religious scriptures.
Islamic law, Shari at, is the most widely practiced religious legal system in todays world. It
is based on morality rather than commercial requirement of human behaviour in all aspects of
a persons self and social life. Islamic law is based on the Holy book of Islam, the Quran and
on interpretation of the practices and sayings of Prophet Mohammad.

It also follows the writings of scholars and teachers of Islamic scholarship, who derived rules
by analogy from the principles established in the holy Quran. The basic foundations of
Islamic law remain unaltered even after many centuries because they have been derived from
the holy book and are acceptable to all devout Muslims.
Even though Islamic jurists and scholars constantly debate the application of Islamic law to
the modern world, their debates are only scholastic deliberations. However, to keep pace with
the advancement of life, many Muslim countries have a blend of Common law and Civil law
system along with the Shariat law.