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Legislation is seen as the primary source of French law. [3] Unlike in common law jurisdictions, where a collection of cases and practices (known as the "common law") historically form the basis of law, [4] the French legal system emphasizes statutes as the primary source of law. [3]
Based on Islamic law and the Egyptian civil law system (after the French civil law system) Syria: Mainly based on French Civil Code. Islamic law is applicable to family law. Non-Muslims follow their own family laws. United Arab Emirates: Mixed legal system, based on Islamic law and the Egyptian civil law system (after the French civil law system).
The ordinary courts, also called judiciary courts, have jurisdiction over two branches of law: French civil law (French: droit civil), [a] which involves settling civil cases between private individuals (also known as private law; droit privé)), and; French criminal law (droit pénal).
"The legislative work of the French Revolution has been qualified as intermediary law since it formed the transition between the old French law and the new, the law covered by the Napoleonic codes." [1] "The private law of the French Revolution is to-day no longer considered an intermediary law. Yet from a positivist point of view, most of the ...
French law on colonialism; French Parliament; French petitions against age of consent laws; G. General principles of French law; Global security law; H. Hate speech ...
French law provides for a separate judicial branch with an independent judiciary which does not answer to or is directly controlled by the other two branches of government. [40] France has a civil law legal system, the basis of which is codified law; however, case law plays a significant role in the determination of the courts.
This decision, which began with the words "Having regard to the constitution and its preamble," affected a considerable change of French constitutional law, as the preamble and the texts it referred to, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 and the preamble to the constitution of the Fourth Republic, took their place ...
French Constitution of 1791; French Constitution of 1793; French Constitution of 1848; French Constitution of 1852; French Constitutional Law of 1940; French constitutional laws of 1875; Fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France