The
law
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of
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
is
civil law. It was first codified during the socialist period.
Constitution
The constitution of 2011 replaced that of 1949.
Legislation
The legislature is the
Magyar Országgyűlés (English: National Assembly).
[Hungary]
Guide to Law Online. Law Library of Congress. There was formerly a
Diet of Hungary
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.
Legislation
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includes Acts (Hungarian: ''törvény'' or ''törvények'').
List of legislation
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Golden Bull of 1222
The Golden Bull of 1222 was a golden bull, or edict, issued by Andrew II of Hungary. King Andrew II was forced by his nobles to accept the Golden Bull (Aranybulla), which was one of the first examples of constitutional limits being placed on the ...
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Golden Bull of 1242
The Golden Bull of 1242 was a golden bull or edict, issued by King Béla IV of Hungary to the inhabitants of Gradec (part of today's Zagreb, the capital of Croatia) during the Mongol invasion of Europe. By this golden bull, King Béla IV proclai ...
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April Laws
The April Laws, also called March Laws, were a collection of laws legislated by Lajos Kossuth with the aim of modernizing the Kingdom of Hungary into a parliamentary democracy, nation state. The imperative program included Hungarian control o ...
of 1848
*Regency Act (
Act XIX of 1937)
*Defence Law (Act II of 1938)
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Act IV of 1947 on the abolition of certain titles and ranks
*Civil Code (Act IV of 1959)
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Government decree of 1971 on legal advisers
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Act IV of 1972 concerning the courts
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Act VII of 1972 on the planning of the national economy
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Act I of 1973 on criminal procedure[Act I of 1973 on Criminal Procedure. (The Statutes of the Hungarian People's Republic). Ministry of Justice of the Hungarian People's Republic. 1976]
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* Act I of 1974 on marriage, family, and guardianship
* Act II of 1976 on the protection of human environment
* Act I of 1977 on notifications and proposals of public interest, and on complaints
* Act VI of 1977 on state enterprises
* Act IV of 1978 on criminal code
* Act II of 1979 on public finances
*Law Decree No 13 of the 1979 on private international law
*Code of Civil Procedure
Courts and judiciary
There is a Supreme Court, a Constitutional Court
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[ and a ]Central District Court of Pest
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. There was a Chief Justice of Hungary
The chief justiceFallenbüchl 1988, p. 147. ( hu, királyi személynök,Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 107. la, personalis praesentiae regiae in judiciis locumtenens,Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 29. german: Königliche Personalis) was the personal legal repres ...
.
Legal practitioners
There is a Hungarian Bar Association Hungarian may refer to:
* Hungary, a country in Central Europe
* Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946
* Hungarians, ethnic groups in Hungary
* Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the assignm ...
(Hungarian: Magyar Ügyvédi Kamara). Legislation relating to legal practitioners includes Act XI of 1998.
Criminal law
The law of Hungary includes criminal law. Legislation on this subject has included Act IV of 1978 on criminal code.
Legislation on criminal procedure has included Act III of 1951, Act I of 1973 on criminal procedure[ and Act XIX of 1998.
]
Company law
The law of Hungary includes company law. Legislation on accounting has included Act C of 2000.
Energy
The law of Hungary includes energy law
Energy laws govern the use and taxation of energy, both renewable and non-renewable. These laws are the primary authorities (such as caselaw, statutes, rules, regulations and edicts) related to energy. In contrast, energy policy refers to th ...
. Legislation on electricity has included Act XLVIII of 1994.
History
The royal prerogatives of the King of Hungary included prefection
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. Tripartitum
The ''Tripartitum'' or ''Opus Tripartitum'' (in full, la, Tripartitum opus iuris consuetudinarii inclyti regni Hungariae, "Customary Law of the Renowned Kingdom of Hungary in Three Parts") is a manual of Hungarian customary law completed in 151 ...
was a law book.[Robert Nisbet Bain. Verböczy, Istvan. Encyclopædia Britannica. 11th Edition. Volume 27. Page 1016.]
See also
*Hungarian nationality law
Hungarian nationality law is based on the principles of jus sanguinis. Hungarian citizenship can be acquired by descent from a Hungarian parent, or by naturalisation. A person born in Hungary to foreign parents does not generally acquire Hungari ...
* Pocket contract
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