The Netherlands runs on civil law. Case law plays only a small formal role, though in practice much of Dutch law cannot be understood without it. The system traces to the French Civil Code, with added influence from Roman-Dutch law and older customary law, and the country's current Civil Code was in turn heavily shaped by the German Burgerliches Gesetzbuch.
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Example Jurisdictions Primary Source of LawThe Dutch Civil Code and other statutes enacted by the Dutch parliament and government, with case law playing a smaller formal role. 2 Classification
Legal Family Law of the Netherlands
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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 Alphons Orie (Wikipedia)
Source Anthony Thysius the Younger (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Balthazar Ayala
Source Bernard Loder (Wikipedia)
Source Burgerlijk Wetboek (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Cornelius van Bynkershoek
Source Wikidata: Dineke de Groot
Source Egbert Myjer (Wikipedia)
Source Hof van Holland (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Johannes Voet
Source Wikidata: Pieter Kooijmans
Source Tobias Asser (Wikipedia)
Source Willem van Eysinga (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: Law of the Netherlands
2. Dutch Law (Wikipedia)
WikipediaWikipedia, Dutch law, Civil Code sectionQuote, Wikipedia, Dutch law, Civil Code section
The German Burgerliches Gesetzbuch heavily influenced the new Civil Code (which went into force in 1992).
Wikidata: Cornelius van Bynkershoek
Includes: Cornelius van Bynkershoek, Cornelius van Bynkershoek) (29 May 1673, in Middelburg, 16 April 1743, in The Hague) was a Dutch jurist and legal theorist.View the Source Wikidata: Johannes Voet
Includes: Johannes Voet, Johannes Voet (Dutch: [vut]), also known as John Voet (3 October 1647-11 September 1713), was a Dutch jurist whose work remains highly influential in modern Roman-Dutch law.View the Source Wikidata: Pieter Kooijmans
Includes: Pieter Kooijmans, Pieter Hendrik "Peter" Kooijmans (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpitər ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈpeːtər ˈkoːimɑns]; 6 July 1933-13 February 2013) was a Dutch politician, jurist, and diplomat.View the Source List of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
In Group: French Civil Law Tradition, opening list, French civil law bullet: in France, the Benelux countries, Italy, Romania, Spain, and former coloniesView the Source Burgerlijk Wetboek (Wikipedia)
Includes: Burgerlijk Wetboek, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Burgerlijk Wetboek, Lead section
The Burgerlijk Wetboek (or BW) is the Civil Code of the Netherlands.
Tobias Asser (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Tobias Asser, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Tobias Asser, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar
Anthony Thysius the Younger (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Anthony Thysius the Younger, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Anthony Thysius the Younger, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Dutch jurist
Egbert Myjer (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Egbert Myjer, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Egbert Myjer, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Dutch judge
Alphons Orie (Wikipedia)
Includes: Alphons Orie, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Alphons Orie, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Dutch jurist specialising in criminal law and
Bernard Loder (Wikipedia)
Includes: Bernard Loder, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Bernard Loder, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Dutch jurist
Willem van Eysinga (Wikipedia)
Includes: Willem van Eysinga, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Willem van Eysinga, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Dutch diplomat and jurist
Hof van Holland (Wikipedia)
Includes: Hof van Holland, Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: Hof van Holland, Wikipedia lead paragraph
and Zeeland in 1428, under the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands, and continued with little change under the Dutch
Wikidata: Balthazar Ayala
Includes: Balthazar Ayala, Wikipedia category: Dutch juristsView the Source Wikidata: Dineke de Groot
Includes: Dineke de Groot, Wikipedia category: 21st-century Dutch women lawyersView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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