The German civil law tradition is a sub-family of the civil law legal family descended from the Burgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1900, distinguished from the French tradition by its more abstract, conceptually layered structure (a general part governing the whole code, applied to specific books on obligations, property and family law) and its historic grounding in nineteenth-century Pandectist legal scholarship rather than direct legislative codification of custom. This tradition spread through direct German legal influence in Switzerland and Austria, and through deliberate modernization borrowing during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Greece and Turkey, each of which built its own civil code on the German model rather than the French one.
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Has Member: German Legal System, Lead paragraph: 'a system of civil law...though many of the most important laws, for example most regulations of the civil code (Burgerliches Gesetzbuch, or BGB)...' names the BGB as its own civil...View the Source Judicial system of Turkey (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Law of Turkey, Civil Code adopted in 1926 was based on the Swiss Civil Code of 1907View the Source Wikipedia: Law of Switzerland
Has Member: Law of Switzerland, largely influenced by the German civil code and partly by the French civil codeView the Source Law of Japan (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Law of Japan, heavily influenced by the 1887 draft of the German Civil Code and to a lesser extent the French Civil CodeView the Source Law of South Korea (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Law of South Korea, modeled after European continental systems such as German and French judicial structureView the Source List of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
- Has Member: Law of Austria, opening list, German civil law bullet: Austria named directly
- Has Member: Law of Estonia, opening list, German civil law bullet: Estonia named directly
- Has Member: Law of Latvia, opening list, German civil law bullet: Latvia named directly
- Has Member: Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, opening list, German civil law bullet: Bosnia and Herzegovina named directly
- Has Member: Law of Croatia, opening list, German civil law bullet: Croatia named directly
- Has Member: Law of North Macedonia, opening list, German civil law bullet: North Macedonia named directly
- Has Member: Law of Montenegro, opening list, German civil law bullet: Montenegro named directly
- Has Member: Law of Slovenia, opening list, German civil law bullet: Slovenia named directly
- Has Member: Law of Serbia, opening list, German civil law bullet: Serbia named directly
- Has Member: Law of Portugal, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal named directly
- Has Member: Law of Greece, opening list, German civil law bullet: Greece named directly
- Has Member: Law of Angola, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal and its former colonies
- Has Member: Law of Mozambique, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal and its former colonies
- Has Member: Law of Cabo Verde, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal and its former colonies
- Has Member: Law of Guinea-Bissau, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal and its former colonies
- Has Member: Law of Sao Tome and Principe, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal and its former colonies
- Has Member: Law of Timor-Leste, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal and its former colonies
- Has Member: Law of Brazil, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal and its former colonies
- Has Member: Law of the Czech Republic, country row: Based on Germanic civil law
- Has Member: Law of Hungary, country row: Based on Germanic codified Roman law with elements from Napoleonic civil law
- Has Member: Law of Bulgaria, country row: Germanic and Roman law systems influence the Civil Law system
- Has Member: Law of Slovakia, country row: Descended from the Civil Code of the Austrian Empire 1811
- Has Member: Law of Belarus, country row: Based on Germanic Civil law
- Has Member: Law of Armenia, country row: Based on German civil law
- Has Member: Law of Ukraine, country row: Based on German civil law, accepted in 2004
- Has Member: Japanese Law, opening list, German civil law bullet: East Asian countries including Japan
- Has Member: Law of Russia, opening list, German civil law bullet: Russia named directly
- Has Member: Law of Mongolia, country row: Based on Germanic civil law
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