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Japanese Law
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Japan operates a civil-law legal system with six legal codes, primarily based on legal codes and statutes with precedent also playing an important role. Major modernization followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Japan adopted European civil-law systems and, to a lesser extent, English and American common law; the Civil Code specifically drew on the draft German BGB as its model. Earlier still, Japanese law had been heavily influenced by Chinese law through the Ritsuryo system, and after the Second World War American law became the strongest influence in constitutional and criminal-procedure reform.
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Origin Year1868 marks the Meiji Restoration, the defensible origin of the modern Japanese legal system as a self-conscious modernization project; pre-modern Japanese law under the Chinese-influenced Ritsuryo system reaches back over a millennium earlier. Example Jurisdictions Primary Source of LawComprehensive enacted civil-law codes modeled substantially on German law, with French, indigenous and postwar American elements, supplemented by judicial precedent 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The Civil Code of Japan is the defining private-law code of the Japanese legal system.
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1. Law of Japan (Wikipedia)
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a civil law legal system with six legal codes, which were greatly influenced by Germany, to a lesser extent by France.
1. Law of Japan (Wikipedia)
WikipediaAssociated With: Civil Code of Japan (1896/1898)
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