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Law of Switzerland

Civil Law Family

Swiss law is the body of rules that makes up the law of Switzerland.

Facts
Partially Attested
Primary Source of Law
Acts of parliament (laws) or by-laws 2
The source lists acts of parliament among several major aspects of Federal law, alongside the Federal Constitution, delegated legislation, regulations and binding tribunal decisions, without ranking one as primary.
Classification
Legal Family
Civil Law 1
Example Jurisdictions
Cantons of Switzerland 2
Connections

In Legal System

Civil Law, Legal Systems

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.

Includes

Federal Act on Data Protection (Switzerland), Regulations

Switzerland federal data protection statute, within the Swiss civil law system.

Source Major Legal Systems in the World TodayRene David and John E.C. Brierley
Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Courts
Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Johann Kaspar Bluntschli
Martha Niquille, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Martha Niquille
Swiss Civil Code (ZGB), Codes
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Europe, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Switzerland, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Law of Switzerland
Swiss law is a set of rules which constitutes the law in Switzerland (Swiss Civil Code, civil law tradition)View the Source
2. Wikipedia: Law of Switzerland
  • Structure and sources, paragraph on the Cantons
    are sovereign except to the extent that their sovereignty is limited by the Federal Constitution. They exercise all rights that are not vested in the Confederation
  • Structure and sources, list of major aspects of Federal law
    acts of parliament ("laws") or by-laws,
  • In Group: German Civil Law Tradition, largely influenced by the German civil code and partly by the French civil code
View the Source
Major Legal Systems in the World Today
Rene David and John E.C. Brierley, Stevens and Sons, 1985Includes: Federal Act on Data Protection (Switzerland)
Wikidata: Johann Kaspar Bluntschli
Includes: Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Johann Caspar (also Kaspar) Bluntschli (7 March 1808-21 October 1881) was a Swiss jurist and politician.View the Source
Wikidata: Martha Niquille
Includes: Martha Niquille, Martha Niquille-Eberle (born 27 August 1954) is a Swiss jurist and judge at the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland in Lausanne.View the Source
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