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What are examples of countries with a common law legal system?

(1) England and Wales; (2) Australia; (3) New Zealand; (4) Canada; (5) USA. Essentially, common law is applied in all those countries which were once colonised by England, except where some other prior colonial power established another legal system which was retained after English colonisation.

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