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Payment Systems

This guide will assist students conducting comparative legal research on payment systems around the world.

Digest of Commercial Laws of the World

Foreign Law Guide

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The Foreign Law Guide: current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world lists and details information for some 190 countries.


Each jurisdictional entry in the Foreign Law Guide provides:

  •  An introductory overview of the legal system and legal history;
  •  An outline of the judicial and legislative system;
  • Primary and secondary sources of law, including a list of codifications, gazettes and other sources of law;
  • Links to major online sources;
  • Identification of major legal publications.

vLex Justis

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vLex is a global legal database that contains constitutions, cases, statutes, codes, law journal articles, books, and legal news in multiple languages for 134 countries including: Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, and the United States. Search terms and full text results can be translated into 13 languages.