Portuguese law belongs to the civil law family, the tradition English speaking countries often use for legal systems descended from the medieval European ius commune, itself rooted in Roman law. It shares many features with the legal systems of most Continental European countries.
Facts
Example JurisdictionsAutonomous regions of Portugal 2 Primary Source of Law Classification
Legal Family Law of Portugal
Filter Results1 entry
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.
Includes
Source Ana Maria Guerra Martins (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Antonio Luis Gomes
Source Aurora Rodrigues, Wikipedia
Source Court of Auditors (Portugal) (Wikipedia)
Source Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque (Wikipedia)
Source Penal Code of Portugal (Wikipedia)
Source Supreme Administrative Court (Portugal) (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Europe, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Portugal, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Law of Portugal
The Law of Portugal is part of the family of civil law legal systemsView the Source 2. Wikipedia: Law of Portugal
Main laws of Portugal, second sentence
The principal law of Portugal is the Constitution (1976), which also constitutes the framework of the branch of constitutional law.
Hierarchy of the laws, sentence on autonomous regions
The legislative function reserved for the bodies of self-government of the autonomous regions is assured by their respective regional legislative assemblies
View the SourceList of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
In Group: German Civil Law Tradition, opening list, German civil law bullet: Portugal named directlyView the Source Court of Auditors (Portugal) (Wikipedia)
Includes: Court of Auditors (Portugal), Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Court of Auditors (Portugal), Lead section
The Portuguese Court of Auditors is the high-court in Portugal responsible for reviewing the legal issues on public expenditure and delivering judgement on those accounts relating to: General Accounts of the State accounts of the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and of Madeira liability of financial offences
Supreme Administrative Court (Portugal) (Wikipedia)
Includes: Supreme Administrative Court (Portugal), Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Supreme Administrative Court (Portugal), Lead section
The Supreme Administrative Court (Portuguese: Supremo Tribunal Administrativo) is a court in Portugal that deals with matters pertaining to administrative and fiscal legal relations.
Aurora Rodrigues, Wikipedia
Includes: Aurora Rodrigues, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Aurora Rodrigues, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Portuguese retired magistrate of the Public Prosec
Ana Maria Guerra Martins (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Ana Maria Guerra Martins, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Ana Maria Guerra Martins, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Portuguese jurist and a judge at the European Cour
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Portuguese judge born in Beira
Wikidata: Antonio Luis Gomes
Includes: Antonio Luis Gomes, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Antonio Luis Gomes, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Portuguese jurist and politician
Penal Code of Portugal (Wikipedia)
Includes: Penal Code of Portugal, Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: Penal Code of Portugal, Wikipedia lead paragraph
The current Penal Code of Portugal (Portuguese: Código Penal Português) was promulgated in 1982
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