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Law of Austria

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Austrian law is a civil law system founded on the Federal Constitutional Law of 1920, divided broadly into public law and private law. Its judiciary is organized into 113 district courts, 20 provincial courts and four higher provincial courts, topped by three separate apex institutions, the Supreme Court of Justice for civil and criminal matters, the Constitutional Court, and the Supreme Administrative Court. The system operates at the federal level, and Austria makes its statutes and regulations available to the public through the Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria.

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Origin Year
1920 1
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Family classification carried over from this entity's own recorded SubLabel (Civil Law Family), assigned under the section-legal-systems structure wave (ruling 761) using the CIA World Factbook / JuriGlobe comparative-law family classification (system.Atlas.DataBrief, law). This edge materializes that existing classification as a connective fact; it is not a new independent research finding.

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Source Wikidata: Gerhart Holzinger
Source Wikidata: Paul Joseph von Riegger
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1. Law of Austria (Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Paul Joseph von Riegger
Includes: Paul Joseph von Riegger, Paul Joseph Riegger (from 1764 Ritter von Riegger), (Freiburg im Breisgau, 29 June 1705, Vienna, 2 December 1775) was an Austrian lawyer and teacher of state church law.View the Source
Wikidata: Gerhart Holzinger
Includes: Gerhart Holzinger, Gerhart Holzinger (born 12 June 1947 in Gmunden, Upper Austria) is an Austrian jurist, educator, and career civil servant.View the Source
List of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
In Group: German Civil Law Tradition, opening list, German civil law bullet: Austria named directlyView the Source
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