Legal Systems
Law of Sweden
Civil Law Family
Citation Formats
General Reference
APA Style
BibTeX
Swedish law is a civil law system that depends heavily on statutory law. Like the rest of Europe, Sweden's civil law tradition traces back to Roman law as codified in the Corpus Juris Civilis, developed through German law rather than the Napoleonic Code, though over time Sweden and the other Nordic countries have moved well away from their Roman and German models. Sweden, together with Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, the self governing Aland Islands and Iceland, is often described as sharing a distinct Nordic legal tradition that is neither a pure civil law system nor part of the British derived common law family.
Facts
Example Jurisdictions Primary Source of LawStatutory law under a civil law system, most centrally the codified Civil Code tradition dating to 1734. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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.
Includes
Sources
1. Swedish Law (Wikipedia)
WikipediaWikipedia, Swedish law, history of codification sectionQuote, Wikipedia, Swedish law, history of codification section
These were replaced by a single code, the Civil Code of 1734, which was promulgated in 1734.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.
View At A Past Year
Choose a year to see this entry's facts and connections as the atlas records them at that moment: what it held then, what it held instead, and what it had not yet adopted. Choose Present for the current record.