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Official Translation: HTML, PDF (in English) Original text of the Basic Law, as adopted in 1949 PDF (in English) Former constitutions. Constitution of the German Empire (1871–1919). Full text from Wikisource. (in English) Constitution of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). (in English) Excerpts from the 1968 Constitution of the GDR. (in English)
The Manual of German Law is a two-volume work whose purpose, according to its Preface (2nd edition, 1968 & 1971), 'is to assist those who in the course of their legal practice require information on elementary aspects of German law.'
The law of Germany (German: Recht Deutschlands), that being the modern German legal system (German: deutsches Rechtssystem), is a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws, for example most regulations of the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, or BGB) were developed prior to ...
The German system thus mirrors the English common law differentiation between in rem rights and in personam rights. The Chilean Civil Code , which came into force on 1 January 1857, also makes this differentiation between the titles and the actual acquisition of property, similarly to the Roman Law .
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Germanic law is a scholarly term used to describe a series of commonalities between the various law codes (the Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians', also called Leges) of the early Germanic peoples. These were compared with statements in Tacitus and Caesar as well as with high and late medieval law codes from Germany and Scandinavia ...
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