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The Fetha Negest has had a great influence on Ethiopia. It has been an educational resource for centuries and is still consulted in matters of law in the present era. [3] In 1960, when the government enacted the civil code of Ethiopia, it cited the Fetha Negest as an inspiration to the codification commission. [4]
(in French) 1967: Administrative contracts in the Ethiopian civil code, Ministerie van Justitie, Addis Ababa (in English) 1968: Major legal systems in the world today, met John E. C. Brierley, London (in English) 1972: French law; its structure, sources, and methodology, State University Press, Baton Rouge, ISBN 978-0807102480
The Ministry of Public Service and Human Resource Development (MPSHRD) is an Ethiopian government department responsible for administration and management of civil servants, providing training and improvement opportunities. [1] It was established in 2008 under Proclamation No.916/2008. [2]
Since the new constitution of Ethiopia enacted in 1995, Ethiopia's legal system consisted of federal law with bicameral legislature. [1] The House of People's Representatives (HoPR) is the lower chamber of bicameral legislature of Federal Parliamentary Assembly with 547 seats and the House of Federation with 108 seats, the former vested on executive power of Prime Minister and the Council of ...
Professor Asmerom Legesse in Abbaa Gadaa cloth. Customary laws, in line with official state laws, are based on age-old community customs and norms in Ethiopia.They are noticeable in regional states and become influential in the life of people more than the formal legal system. [1]
The Constitution of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ሕዝቦች ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ ሕገ መንግሥት, romanized: Ye-Ītyōṗṗyā Həzbāwī Dīmōkrāsīyāwī Rīpeblīk Ḥige Menigišit), also known as the 1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, was the third constitution of Ethiopia, and went into effect on 22 February 1987 after ...
[49] [50] Under the 1865 Civil Code, unity of the family was a driving foundation of the code, thus the emphasis was on descent. [51] Nationality was derived paternally, regardless of where a child was born, unless the father was unknown. Foundlings born in the territory were presumed to have an Italian father and were granted nationality. [52]
Until the adoption of the first of these constitutions, the concepts of Ethiopian government had been codified in the Kebra Nagast (which presented the concept that the legitimacy of the Emperor of Ethiopia was based on its asserted descent from king Solomon of ancient Israel), and the Fetha Nagast (a legal code used in Ethiopia at least as ...