• The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (German: [ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪçəs ɡəˈzɛtsbuːx] , lit. 'Civil Law Book'), abbreviated BGB, is the civil code of Germany, codifying most...
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    The General civil code (German: Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch or ABGB) is the Civil Code of Austria, which after about 40 years of preparatory work...
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  • important laws, for example most regulations of the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, or BGB) were developed prior to the 1949 constitution. It is composed...
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    most notably with France's Napoleonic Code (1804) and Germany's Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (1900). Unlike common law systems, which rely heavily on judicial...
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    S. Library of Congress. Section: Who is a Child?. "Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch" [General Civil Code] (PDF). Youth Policy (in German). 2001. "Legislation...
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    Germany, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch "§ 311 Abs. II". dejure.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2007. "§ 105". dejure.org. Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch: Nichtigkeit...
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    the Austrian civil code (Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) of 1812, the German civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) of 1900 and the Swiss codes. The European...
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    Galicia in 1797). The final Austrian Civil Code (called Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, ABGB) was only completed in 1811 after the dissolution of the...
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  • civil code of Western Galicia, German: Westgalizisches Gesetzbuch, rarely — Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch von Westgalizien) was a civil code created in the 18th...
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  • Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) on January 1, 1900. Prussian Allgemeines Landrecht (ALR) Napoleonic Code Austrian Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (ABGB)...
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    Austria Based on Roman and Germanic Civil law. The Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (ABGB) of 1811. The ABGB is influenced both by Roman and Austrian...
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  • {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Art. 1601 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) (in German) Loi Code Civil du 1 octobre 2018, articles 203-211...
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    for all of the Empire, an enormous effort that would produce the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB), possibly one of the most impressive legal works in the world;...
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    contemporary common law jurisdictions 4 Specific to the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch and other civil codes based on the pandectist tradition 5 Explicitly...
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    Germany. In 1896, Japan established a civil code based on the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, which remains in effect with post–World War II modifications....
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    also designated as "the special private law for merchants". The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) (English Civil Code) is only subsidiary applied to merchants...
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    handwritten and signed by the testator; section 578 of the Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (Austrian Civil Code) does not require the date or place of composition...
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  • books (enacted in 2004) were heavily influenced by the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch.[citation needed] The primary law making body is the Ukrainian...
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    contemporary common law jurisdictions 4 Specific to the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch and other civil codes based on the pandectist tradition 5 Explicitly...
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    while in Schleswig, the Code of Jutland prevailed. In 1900, the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch replaced the Code in Schleswig, abeit with a number of exceptions...
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    contemporary common law jurisdictions 4 Specific to the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch and other civil codes based on the pandectist tradition 5 Explicitly...
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  • stemming from the Napoleonic Code which, together with the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, forms the basis for private law in the majority of civil law countries...
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    Napoleonic Code was influential until the introduction of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch in 1900 as the first common civil code for the entire German Empire...
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    Contracts of sale are covered in the Schuldrecht section of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch or German Civil Code, sections 241-853. United Kingdom Sale of...
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  • Roman-Dutch law (which it replaced) and pre-codal customary law. German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch heavily influenced the new Civil Code (which went into force in...
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    codified on the national level in the Strafgesetzbuch and the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch respectively. The German penal system seeks the rehabilitation...
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    left bank of the Rhine until 1900, when a unified civil code (the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) was introduced in the German Empire. In 1815 at the Congress of...
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    contemporary common law jurisdictions 4 Specific to the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch and other civil codes based on the pandectist tradition 5 Explicitly...
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  • Republic of China were inspired by the German codified work, the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch. A very influential example in Europe was the French Napoleonic...
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  • than 5 years; 3 years for all other offences. In the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch), the regular statute of limitations is three years (plus the time...
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