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The legal system of Costa Rica is classified as a civil law system, based on the Napoleonic Civil Code. As in other civil law jurisdictions, its primary source of law is codified legislation rather than binding judicial precedent. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Alda Facio, Jurists
Source Alda Facio - Wikipedia
Source Wikidata: Angela Acuna Braun
Source Constitution of Costa Rica (Wikipedia)
Source Elizabeth Odio Benito - Wikipedia
Source Wikipedia: Fernando Cruz Castro
Source Francisco Dall'Anese - Wikipedia
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1. List of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction, jurisdictions using it
    The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four major legal traditions: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these.
  • In Group: French Civil Law Tradition, country row: Based on the Napoleonic Civil Law
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Alda Facio - Wikipedia
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is a Costa Rican feminist
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Francisco Dall'Anese - Wikipedia
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is a Costa Rican jurist and writer who served as the
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Wikipedia: Fernando Cruz Castro
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is a Costa Rican lawyer and judge who served as the
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Elizabeth Odio Benito - Wikipedia
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is a Costa Rican jurist
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Constitution of Costa Rica (Wikipedia)
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is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, José Figueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa
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Wikidata: Angela Acuna Braun
Includes: Angela Acuna Braun, Wikipedia category: 20th-century Costa Rican women lawyersView the Source
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