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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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"...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Bearnès dialect of Old Occitan. It was the spoken language of law courts and of business and it was the written language of customary law. Although vernacular...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by...

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

by French laws in June, 1791. cf: Albanagium -- In old French law, the state of alienage, of being a foreigner or alien. Albanus -- In old French law, a...

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

(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...