German law is a system of civil law founded on the principles of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of its most important rules, including much of the civil code known as the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch or BGB, were developed before the 1949 constitution. It is made up of public law, which governs relations between a person and the state, including criminal law, or between two bodies of the state, and private law, which governs relations between individuals or companies. The system has drawn on a wide range of influences from Roman law, including the Justinian Code and the Corpus Juris Civilis, and to a lesser extent the Napoleonic Code.
The modern German legal system is a civil-law system founded on the principles of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though its component codes substantially predate the postwar constitution. Its centerpiece private-law code, the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, was the product of over twenty years of drafting following German unification in 1871, drawing on the Pandectist revival of Roman law as well as medieval Germanic custom. The Federal Constitutional Court functions as the highest authority in constitutional law and, to some extent, German law as a whole. Its codification model proved internationally influential, shaping the legal systems of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
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a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.
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The law of Germany (German: Deutsches Recht), that being the modern German legal system (German: deutsches Rechtssystem), is a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws, for example most regulations of the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, or BGB) were developed prior to the 1949 constitution.
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Includes: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Friedrich Carl von Savigny was a German jurist and legal historian who served as professor of jurisprudence and was rector of the University of Berlin in 1812 to 1813. He was also a member oView the Source Wikidata: Rudolf von Jhering
Includes: Rudolf von Jhering, Caspar Rudolph von Jhering was a German jurist best known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht (The Struggle for Law), as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and hiView the Source Wikidata: Bernhard Windscheid
Includes: Bernhard Windscheid, Bernhard Joseph Hubert Windscheid lived from 1817 to 1892 and was a German jurist and a member of the pandectist school of legal thought. He became known for his essay on the concept of a leView the Source Wikidata: Samuel von Pufendorf
Includes: Samuel von Pufendorf, Samuel von Pufendorf lived from 1632 to 1694 and was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian. Born Samuel Pufendorf, he was ennobled in 1694 and made a baron by CharlView the Source Wikidata: Georg Friedrich von Martens
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Includes: Birke Häcker, Birke Hacker was born in 1977 and is a German legal scholar. Since January 2023 she has been Professor for Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bonn and Director ofView the Source Wikidata: Konrad Hesse
Includes: Konrad Hesse, Konrad Hesse lived from January 29, 1919 to March 15, 2005 and was a German jurist who served from 1975 to 1987 as a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court. Born in Konigsberg, East PruView the Source Wikidata: Theresia Degener
Includes: Theresia Degener, Theresia Degener was born on April 10, 1961 in Altenberge, West Germany and is a jurist and professor of law at the Protestant University for Applied Sciences of the Rheinland-Westfalen-LippView the Source Wikidata: Wilhelm Schaffrath
Includes: Wilhelm Schaffrath, Wilhelm Schaffrath lived from May 1, 1814 to May 7, 1893 and was a German jurist and politician. He was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848 and, after 1871, a member of the nationalView the Source Wikidata: Christian Wolff
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Its task was to ensure uniformity of jurisprudence throughout the territory of the German Empire.
Civil procedure code of Germany (Wikipedia)
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Zivilprozessordnung (ZPO) is the German code of civil procedure.
Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch (Wikipedia)
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The Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch (ADHGB; English: General German Commercial Code (GGCC)) was the first comprehensive commercial code in Germany.
Vehmic court (Wikipedia)
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The Vehmic courts, Vehmgericht, holy vehme, or simply Vehm, also spelled Feme, Vehmegericht, Fehmgericht, are names given to a tribunal system of Westphalia in Germany active during the Late Middle Ages, based on a fraternal organisation of lay judges called "free judges" (German: Freischöffen or French: francs-juges).
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is a German jurist and Judge of the International C
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was a German jurist
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is the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
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is a German jurist who has been serving as vice pre
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is a German jurist who is currently serving as a ju
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was a German jurist and political philosopher
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was a German legal scholar and politician
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was a German Legal scholar
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was a German jurist and philosopher
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was a German jurist and musician
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was a German politician and lawyer
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was a German notary and colonial official
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was a German lawyer
Wikipedia: Otto von Gierke
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was a German legal scholar and historian
Wikipedia: Bruno Simma
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is a German jurist who served as a judge on the Int
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was a German jurist
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was a German jurist and politician
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was a German jurist
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is a German jurist
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was a German jurist and legal philosopher
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was a German diplomat and professor of international
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is a German jurist
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was a German international law scholar and former di
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was a German jurist and philosopher of law
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was a German jurist and Church historian as well as
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was a German jurist and a leading proponent of the d
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was a German jurist
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was a German jurist
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was a German legal academic and judge
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is a German legal scholar
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was a German jurist known as a promoter of the theor
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was a German jurist and law historian
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was an influential German philosopher of law
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was a German jurist of Jewish descent
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was a German jurist
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was a German jurist and a legal philosopher
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was a German legal scholar
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was a German criminal law scholar
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was a German legal scholar and judge
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was a German legal scholar and judge
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was a German jurist and politician
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was a medieval German administrator who compiled the Sachsens
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is a German law professor and retired Director at t
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is a German legal scholar and was one of the
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was a German jurist widely regarded as the leading a
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is a German lawyer and a former judge of the Europe
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was the first German Judge at the International Criminal Tri
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is a German scholar of constitutional law who serve
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was a German legal scholar and philosopher of Jewish
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Carl Georg von Wächter (Wikipedia)
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Christoph Flügge (born 14 July 1947) is a German jurist and judge.
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was a German lawyer and politician
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was a German politician
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is a German jurist and the current professor of int
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