<P> Federal courts and 49 states use the legal system based on English common law (see below), which has diverged somewhat since the mid-nineteenth century in that they look to each other's cases for guidance on issues of first impression and rarely, if ever, look at contemporary cases on the same issue in the UK or the Commonwealth . </P> <Tr> <Td> Uruguay </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Uzbekistan </Td> <Td> Represents an evolution of Soviet civil law . Overwhelmingly strong impact of the Communist legal theory is traceable . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Vietnam </Td> <Td> Communist legal theory and French civil law </Td> </Tr>

The us legal system is based largely on which of the following