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...

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

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

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between...

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 as...

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...

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

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 definition...

Additionally, French courts may petition the European Court of Justice to certify a question of law concerning EU law. French criminal law Jurisdictional...

and contains some of the earliest known instances of Old Dutch. It remained the basis of Frankish law throughout the early Medieval period, and influenced...

récidive des majeurs et des mineurs". French Criminal Law (in French). Legifrance. Retrieved 2007-11-01. The French Parliament. "Paragraph 1 - Conditions...

The 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and State (French: Loi du 9 décembre 1905 concernant la séparation des Églises et de l'État) was...

The French code of criminal procedure (French: Code de procédure pénale) is the codification of French criminal procedure, "the set of legal rules in France...

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"...

Crime out of France is combated by a range of French law enforcement agencies. Though France's homicide rate fluctuated substantially in recent years...

Look up contravention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In French criminal law, a contravention is the least serious among three categories of offenses...

Norman law Old French law Pashtunwali and Jirga (Pashtuns of Pakistan and Afghanistan) Smriti and Ācāra (India) Statutes of Lithuania Customary law (South...

The National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale, [asɑ̃ble nɑsjɔnal]) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic...

(/ˌɒ̃sjæ̃ reɪˈʒiːm/; French: [ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim] ; lit. 'old rule') was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned...

seized or destroyed by the French government without compensation to the owners. Category B requires the owner to be older than 18, be affiliated with...

Overseas France (French: France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remnants of the French colonial...

The commune (French pronunciation: [kɔmyn] ) is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships...

pedem /ˈpedem/ > [ˈpɛdɛ] > [ˈpieðɛ] > Old French pie [ˈpie] (modern French pied "foot") The chronology of Bartsch's law relative to the more general diphthongization...

glossary of French criminal law is a list of explanations or translations of contemporary and historical concepts of criminal law in France. Contents A...

divided between two statutes: the Old Poor Law passed during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and the New Poor Law, passed in 1834, which significantly...

Gallo-Romance dialects spoken in northern France. The language's early forms include Old French and Middle French. Due to Roman rule, Latin was gradually...

and sociology. Law also raises important and complex issues concerning equality, fairness, and justice. The word law, attested in Old English as lagu...

(French: Code Napoléon), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil...

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in...

holdover from old French law. This dower could be forfeited by women who took perpetual vows in certain religious orders. It was the law of dower unimpaired...