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1) MALAYSIAN LEGAL SYSTEM - Coggle Diagram

- - - - each State possesses its own constitution
        
        contain provisions which are enumerated in the Eighth Schedule
        
        some of these provisions include matters concerning the Ruler
    - - law enacted by a body constituted for this purpose
        
        legislated by Parliament at federal level and by the various State Legislative Assemblies at state level
    - - supreme law of the country law
        
        applies to all States in the Federation
        
        laying down the powers of the Federal and State Governments
    - - Interpretation Act 1967: ‘any proclamation, rule, regulation, order, notification, by-law or other instrument made under any Ordinance, Enactment or other lawful authority and having legislative effect’
        
        deals with the details about which the legislature has neither the time nor the technical knowledge to enact
  - - - It is applied only in the absence of local statutes on the particular subjects
        
        Only that part of the English law that is suited to local circumstances will be applied
    - - Malaysian law can also be found in the judicial decisions of the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Federal Court, the then Supreme Court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
        
        decisions of these courts were made and still are being made by the ‘doctrine of binding precedent
    - - West Malaysia (Adat Temenggong, Adat Pepatih, Chinese Custom & Hindu/Indian)
        
        East Malaysia (Adat Melayu, Native Customary Law, Chinese Customary Law)