Legal Order of the Netherlands

• The Government and the Law
• Sources of Law
• Civil law versus criminal and administrative law
• Hyarchy of civil law sources
  • National laws
  • Treaties (Conventions) and European legislation
  • Customary practice ('usage')
  • Case law
  • Principle of reasonableness and fairness
• Areas of civil law
  • Family law
  • Law on legal persons (corporate law)
  • Law of succession
  • Property law
• Organisation of Justice
  • District Court (and Subdistrict Court)
  • Court of Appeal
  • Supreme Court (final judgments)
• Judicial Map
  • Court of Appeal of the Hague
  • Court of Appeal of Amsterdam
  • Court of Appeal of Leeuwarden
  • Court of Appeal of Arnhem
  • Court of Appeal of
    's-Hertogenbosch

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