> Europe also uses civil law, not common law, so there's no criminal, civil divide like there is in the US. Yes, there is a civil/criminal divide, this is not

> Europe also uses civil law, not common law, so there's no criminal, civil divide like there is in the US. Yes, there is a civil/criminal divide, this is not so much related to being civil/common law (and just because this is HN, see the graph at the bottom of the page for a French example - though they call it civil and penal jurisdiction https://cours.unjf.fr/repository/coursefilearea/file.php/105/Cours/02_item/indexI0.htm https://cours.unjf.fr/repository/coursefilearea/file.php/105... )