In 1830, in the case of State v. Cawood, the same court ruled that Congresses common law applied to Alabama. In 1833, a new code specifically adopted common-law crimes.

In 1826, a decree was passed to criminalised sodomy in Nicaragua with up to 3 years in prison.

Date reflects beginning of British colonization of Malaysia. Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia.

In 1823, The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled in Key v. Vattier that the state did not recognize common-law crimes; the legality of sodomy was no longer unclear.

In 1822, Alabama's Supreme Court ruled in the case of Coburn v. Harwood that sodomy was not an indictable offense in Alabama under the common law.

The age of consent for homosexual relations is equal to that of heterosexual ones in El Salvador.

The first Penal Code in El Salvador removed all mentions of sodomy as a crime in 1822.

The age of consent is set equally at 18 years of age in the Code for the protection of the rights of children and adolescents.

The 1822 Criminal Code of the Dominican Republic did not criminalise same sex activity between consenting adults in private. The Criminal Code was updated in 2007 but did not change this.