French law has a dual jurisdictional system comprising private law (droit privé), also known as judicial law, and public law (droit public). Judicial law...

French nationality law is historically based on the principles of jus soli (Latin for "right of soil") and jus sanguinis, according to Ernest Renan's...

Law French (Middle English: Lawe Frensch) is an archaic language originally based on Anglo-Norman, but increasingly influenced by Parisian French and...

system of the French Republic. The field of criminal law is defined as a sector of French law, and is a combination of public and private law, insofar...

secondary schools. The law is an amendment to the French Code of Education that expands principles founded in existing French law, especially the constitutional...

The droit d'auteur or French authors' rights law, is in the jurisdiction of France a set of exclusive prerogatives available to a creator over his or...

French company law is the law governing corporations incorporated in France or under French corporate law. In the wake of the French Revolution in 1791...

French labour law is the system of labour law operating in France. During the French Revolution, the Le Chapelier Law 1791 was passed to prohibit unions...

Law enforcement in France is centralized at the national level. Recently, legislation has allowed local governments to hire their own police officers...

Law schools in France may refer to three distinct institutions: The legal component of a French university, called Faculté de droit (Faculty of Law)....

Administrative law is a division of law governing the activities of executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law includes executive branch...

interpretation and application of statutory law throughout France. It also filters out appeals challenging the constitutionality of statutes before forwarding...

Toubon Law (full name: law 94-665 of 4 August 1994 relating to usage of the French language) is a French law mandating the use of the French language...

depending on the type, function and magazine capacity of the weapon. In 1563, King Charles IX of France made an address to the Rouen parliament about forbidding...

l'homme et aux libertés fondamentales, is French legislation passed by the National Assembly in 2000. The law is targeted at movements deemed to be "cults"...

the King of France. The Montforts eventually won the duchy by warfare, but had to recognize the suzerainty of the King of France. This law was by no...

Old French law, referred to in French as Ancien Droit, was the law of the Kingdom of France until the French Revolution. In the north of France were the...

The Avia Law, a law of 24 June 2020 aimed at combating hateful content on the internet, was a law of France whose initial content was largely challenged...

recognized as incurable. The abortion law was liberalized by the Veil Act in 1975. The First French Republic saw the act of abortion being changed from an act...

history of France is commonly divided into three periods: that of the old French law (Ancien Droit), that of the Revolutionary or intermediary law (Droit...

The 23 February 2005 French law on colonialism (French: loi n° 2005-158 du 23 février 2005 portant reconnaissance de la Nation et contribution nationale...

law. However, in practical terms, French law comprises three principal areas of law: civil law, criminal law, and administrative law. Criminal laws can...

vestiges of feudalism were abolished.[citation needed] Specifically, as to civil law, the many different bodies of law used in different parts of France were...

and topical guide of France: France – country in Western Europe with several overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean...

number of prominent French intellectuals, doctors, and psychologists calling for reforms to or the abolition of the French age of consent law. A January...

Republic. For the last century, the French government policy has been based on the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, which...

the local law was written and Roman, or customary common law. The word "Parliament", in the modern meaning of the term, appeared in France in the 19th...

Constitutional Laws of 1875 were the laws passed in France by the National Assembly between February and July 1875 which established the Third French Republic...

The fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France were a set of unwritten principles which dealt with determining the question of royal succession, and placed...

The hate speech laws in France are matters of both civil law and criminal law. Those laws protect individuals and groups from being defamed or insulted...