Libyan law is a mixed system combining Islamic sharia, civil law and customary law, shaped historically by Ottoman, French, Italian and Egyptian influences. Under Ottoman rule civil law rested on the Majallat al-Ahkam al-Adliyah, and the adoption of Napoleonic Code principles influenced commercial practice, an influence later extended by Italian colonial administration from 1911 to 1943. During the federal monarchy of the 1950s, jurist Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri drafted a new Civil Code in 1954 based on French and Italian civil law that also recognized sharia and Arab custom as sources of law, while a dual court system applied Maliki school sharia to personal status matters. Contemporary Libyan law still combines sharia, chiefly of the Maliki school, civil codes shaped by European models and customary law, though the system retains significant authoritarian features, including provisions from the 1953 penal code and the death penalty, despite periodic reform efforts.
Facts
Example Jurisdictions Primary Source of LawCivil law based on French and Italian codes, with sharia and Arab custom recognized as sources 2 Classification
Legal Family Law of Libya
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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 (Mixed and Hybrid Legal Systems), 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 Ali ibn Ziyad (Wikipedia)
Source Libyan interim Constitutional Declaration (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Salwa El-Deghali
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Libya, found in there.
Sources
1. Law of Libya (Wikipedia)
2. Law of Libya - Wikipedia
Law under the federal monarchy section
which itself was based on the French civil law, but also recognised sharia and Arab customs as a source of law.
Introduction, jurisdictions using it
The law of Libya has historically been influenced by Ottoman, French, Italian, and Egyptian sources.
- In Group: Civil and Sharia Law Hybrid Systems, 1954 Civil Code section: French/Italian civil law base, recognised sharia as source
View the SourceWikidata: Salwa El-Deghali
Includes: Salwa El-Deghali, Salwa Fawzi El-Deghali (Arabic: سلوى فوزي الدغٌيلًي) is a Libyan academic and a member of the National Transitional Council representing women and in charge of legal affairs.View the Source Ali ibn Ziyad (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Ali ibn Ziyad, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Ali ibn Ziyad, Wikipedia lead sentence
was an 8th-century CE Libyan Muslim jurist from Tripoli
Libyan interim Constitutional Declaration (Wikipedia)
Includes: Libyan interim Constitutional Declaration, Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: Libyan interim Constitutional Declaration, Wikipedia lead paragraph
due to the overthrow of the Gaddafi government in the Libyan Civil War. It was finalised on 3 August 2011 by t
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