Юридически английски език (ESP: Legal English)

Every state has its own legal system. Comparative law studies national legal systems on a world scale and groups them into world legal system types according to common characteristic features, the most important of which is: what source of law (statutes, precedents or customs) is traditionally central to the respective jurisdiction. The term jurisdiction is preferred to “state” because it comprises not only the traditional notions of a) sovereign political entity (e.g. Bulgaria) and b) partially sovereign political entity as a part of a federation (e.g. the State of Delaware, US), but also other political entities with considerable sovereignty (e.g. the Provinces and Territories of Canada, etc.). There are several major types of legal systems as well as many pluralistic (mixed) legal systems.