The Development of Lithuanian Civil Law before and after the Adoption of the Civil Code in 2000 (text only in French)

Jurisprudencija: Mokslo darbu žurnalas 121 (3):195-211 (2010)
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The article outlines some aspects of the civil law in Lithuania, an Eastern European country, which underwent an essential transformation in the last decades. The author outlines the development of the Lithuanian civil law from the oldest written sources up to the adoption of the new Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania in 2000. The author is critical about the denomination of Lithuania as a “new” state and draws attention to the history of Lithuanian law, which spans hundreds of years. The article emphasizes the continuity of the legal tradition and the heterogeneity of law – the coexisting of several legal systems in the territory of one state. The article discusses the role of Roman Law in the legal system of Lithuania. Even though Roman Law has never been applied in Lithuania, the author argues that it nevertheless had an indirect influence on Lithuanian private law. Roman Law and Canonical Law were among the main sources while drafting the three codified acts, the Statutes of Lithuania, in 1529, 1566 and 1588. The knowledge of Roman Law acquired by lawyers at universities in other European countries was transmitted through drafting of the laws and the jurisdictional and administrative practices

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edition Dambrauskaitė, Asta (2010) "Le Droit civil lituanien: Avant et apres l'adoption du code civil en 2000". Jurisprudencija: Mokslo darbu žurnalas 121(3):195-211

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