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  2. Criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States

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    For example, in 2014, the US Federal Government was owed over $100 billion of criminal debt, and during that year, federal judges imposed almost $14 billion in new CJFOs, but the government only collects about $4 billion per year. [1] CJFOs are permitted by law in all 50 states; however, the amounts permitted may vary greatly.

  3. List of national legal systems - Wikipedia

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    The substantive civil law is based on the French Civil Code. Otherwise, the criminal law and court procedure are based on the English common law. See Seychelles Legal Environment. South Africa: An amalgam of Roman-Dutch civil law and English common law, as well as Customary Law. Sri Lanka

  4. Analogy (law) - Wikipedia

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    Analogy in law is a method of resolving issues on which there is no previous authority by using argument from analogy.Analogy in general involves an inference drawn from one particular situation to another based on similarity, but legal analogy is distinguished by the need to use a legally relevant basis for drawing an analogy between two situations.

  5. Comparative criminal justice - Wikipedia

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    Comparative criminal justice is a subfield of the study of Criminal justice that compares justice systems worldwide. Such study can take a descriptive, historical, or political approach. [1] It studies the similarities and differences in structure, goals, punishment and emphasis on rights as well as the history and political stature of ...

  6. Comparative law - Wikipedia

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    Legal Systems of the World. Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law and legal systems of different countries. More specifically, it involves the study of the different legal systems (or "families") in existence around the world, including common law, civil law, socialist law, Canon law, Jewish Law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law.

  7. Child support in the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, because child support enforcement is now branded as part of the civil law, respondents do not have the constitutional protections afforded by criminal procedure. [4] This includes right to trial by jury (excluding Texas), right to counsel, and right to cross-examination, among others.

  8. Civil forfeiture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    While civil procedure, as opposed to criminal procedure, generally involves a dispute between two private citizens, civil forfeiture involves a dispute between law enforcement and property such as a pile of cash or a house or a boat, such that the thing is suspected of being involved in a crime. To get back the seized property, owners must ...

  9. Criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Criminal law varies according to jurisdiction, and differs from civil law, where emphasis is more on dispute resolution and victim compensation, rather than on punishment or rehabilitation. Criminal procedure is a formalized official activity that authenticates the fact of commission of a crime and authorizes punitive or rehabilitative ...