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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	LesothoReviewed	GeorgiaReviewed	CameroonReviewed
Legal family	Mixed Roman-Dutch and English common law	Civil law	Mixed (civil law and common law)
System of government	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Unitary parliamentary republic	Unitary presidential republic
Constitution	Constitution of Lesotho	Constitution of Georgia	Constitution of the Republic of Cameroon
In force since	1993	1995	1972
Capital	Maseru	Tbilisi	Yaoundé
Official languages	Sesotho, English	Georgian	French, English
Currency	Lesotho loti (LSL)	Lari (GEL)	Central African CFA franc (XAF)
Population	2,300,000	3,700,000	28,600,000
Division of powers	Unitary with ten districts, and a recognised hierarchy of chiefs exercising customary functions over land allocation and local dispute resolution. The Senate includes the twenty-two principal chiefs ex officio.	Unitary, with the Autonomous Republic of Adjara holding its own constitution and supreme council, and Abkhazia recognised in Georgian law as an autonomous republic. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are outside the effective control of the central government, and the atlas records Georgian law as it stands while noting that it is not applied there in practice.	A strongly presidential system with a bicameral Parliament of National Assembly and Senate, and a judiciary in which the Supreme Court sits above separate common-law and civil-law appellate structures.
How law is made	Bills pass three readings in the National Assembly, go to the Senate for review, and receive royal assent. The Senate can delay but not indefinitely block ordinary bills. Amendments to entrenched constitutional provisions require a two-thirds majority and, for the most protected clauses, a referendum.	Bills may be introduced by the Government, members of Parliament, a committee, the representative bodies of the autonomous republics or by an initiative of 25,000 voters. They pass three readings, and the President may veto with remarks, which Parliament overrides by a majority of its full composition. Organic laws require an absolute majority. Laws take effect on publication in the Legislative Herald.	Bills pass committee and plenary in the National Assembly and are transmitted to the Senate; disagreement is resolved by a joint commission or a second Assembly vote. The President promulgates or may seek constitutional review.
Legal profession	A split profession in form — advocates and attorneys are separately admitted under the Legal Practitioners Act — though in practice many practitioners hold both admissions; the Law Society of Lesotho regulates the attorneys' branch.	Advocates are admitted by the Georgian Bar Association after a qualifying examination and hold a monopoly on representation in criminal cases and, since 2017, in cassation. The Bar is a self-governing body with its own ethics commission. Notaries are licensed and their role in property and corporate acts was deliberately narrowed during the reform decade in favour of direct electronic registration, which is why Georgian conveyancing is faster and cheaper than in most civil-law systems.	A single bar for both legal zones: advocates admitted to the Cameroon Bar Association may practise in common-law and civil-law courts alike, which makes bilingual competence a practical necessity.

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