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Belgium is a federal state with a civil law system. Civil law system in Belgium is inspired by Roman Law and largely influenced by the French legal system particularly by French Civil Code in 1804. [6] This system differentiates with the common law system applied in other countries by making distinction between ‘public’ and ‘private ...
The Belgian Constitution of 1831 was created in the aftermath of the secession of Belgium from the United Netherlands in the Belgian Revolution. After the revolution's initial success, an elected National Congress was convened in November 1830 to create a devise a political order for the new state.
In the early 1980s, the Belgian government undertook a comprehensive reform of Belgian nationality law. [1] The result was the Belgian nationality code, which was legislated on 28 June 1984 and largely took effect on 1 January 1985.
Capital punishment in Belgium; Belgium Penal Transaction Law; Belgian Code of Criminal Procedure; Colonial Charter on the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State; Constitutional Court (Belgium) Council of State (Belgium) Court of Audit of Belgium
Since 1988, the Court is also responsible for supervising the application of some particular articles of the Belgian constitution such as the principles of equality, non-discrimination and the rights and liberties in respect of education (the Articles 10, 11, and 24 of the Belgian constitution). With a special law of 2003, this competence was ...
The Belgian Code of Criminal Procedure (Dutch: Wetboek van Strafvordering, French: Code d'Instruction Criminelle, German: Strafprozessgesetzbuch) is a code of law in the country of Belgium, of which the different parts were formally adopted in November and December 1808 (before Belgium existed as a sovereign state). The code is currently still ...
Belgium, [b] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [c] is a country in Northwestern Europe. ... Since the modification of the Belgian nationality law in 1984, ...
Until 2007, Belgium law remained a strong fault-based system, and the party who cited separation as ground to divorce against the will of the 'innocent' spouse was deemed to be at fault. [4] The new divorce law of 2007 is largely no-fault, although some serious faults regarding the conviction of a criminal offense against the other spouse ...