Luxembourg law is a civil law system that developed from customary law practiced between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. Its constitutional framework has been established and revised repeatedly, with constitutions in 1841, 1848, 1856 and 1868 and further revisions in 1919, 1948 and 1987. The Chamber of Deputies serves as the legislature, and a Constitutional Court sits within the judiciary; legal practitioners, called avocats, operate under professional secrecy obligations. The system is organized around codified law, including grand ducal regulations and foundational codes such as the Penal Code of 1879, the Commercial Code, the Labour Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Facts
Example Jurisdictions Primary Source of Law Classification
Legal Family Law of Luxembourg
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Connections
In Legal Family
Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
In Legal System
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 Council of Luxembourg (Wikipedia)
Source Dean Spielmann (Wikipedia)
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Europe, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Luxembourg, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Law of Luxembourg
2. Constitution of Luxembourg - Wikipedia
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The modern constitution was adopted on 17 October 1868.
Introduction, jurisdictions using it
The Constitution of Luxembourg is the supreme law of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
View the Source3. Law of Luxembourg - Wikipedia
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The law of Luxembourg is civil law.
List of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
In Group: French Civil Law Tradition, opening list, French civil law bullet: Benelux countries named directlyView the Source Dean Spielmann (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Dean Spielmann, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Dean Spielmann, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Luxembourgish lawyer and a former president of the Eu
Council of Luxembourg (Wikipedia)
Includes: Council of Luxembourg, Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: Council of Luxembourg, Wikipedia lead paragraph
The Council of Luxembourg was the central institution in the government of
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