Roman-Dutch Law
Roman-Dutch law (Dutch: Rooms-Hollands recht, Afrikaans: Romeins-Hollandse reg) is an uncodified, scholarship-driven, and judge-made legal system based on Roman law as applied in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries. As such, it is a variety of the European continental civil law or ius commune. While Roman-Dutch law was superseded by Napoleonic codal law in the Netherlands proper as early as the beginning of the 19th century, the legal practices and principles of the Roman-Dutch system are still applied actively and passively by the courts in countries that were part of the Dutch colonial empire, or countries which are …
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Amnesty International · 13 February 2024 English
Amnesty International submits this document in response to the call for input for the report of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to the 56th session of …
declined the organization’s application, citing Roman Dutch Law and the absence of explicit protection against …
World Bank Group · 11 January 2024 English
Limited access to justice is a root cause of underdevelopment, social unrest, and conflict. Expanding access to all and especially vulnerable groups including women, the young, small business owners and …
and the rest mixed common and civil law or Roman-Dutch law traditions. The countries of the Nordic …
Amnesty International · 9 January 2024 English
Across Africa, LGBTI persons face a distressing regression of progress, enduring relentless protests and formidable obstacles to their rights. This review exposes an alarming trend: the weaponization of law to …
governance system of Swazi Law and Custom and Roman Dutch law. While the Constitution, guarantees all citizens … minister communicated his decision citing Roman Dutch Law as well as the absence of clear prohibition …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 3 November 2023 English
ouverte d'Irstea / Cemagref 14 roots in the Roman-Dutch law and English law and proposed mixed status for … the state having dominus fluminus8 over it (Roman-Dutch law) or as a private good with riparian users …
CHR: Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria · 28 June 2023 English
This followed the popular uprising of Complex cases such as that of the assas- October 2014,1 during which the power sination of former President Thomas of the street was on …
in Lesotho, it would be essential inherited Roman-Dutch law and its for those instruments to be domesticated …
OHCHR: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights · 26 May 2023 English
The legal recognition of LGBT persons may have progressed since the colonial and apartheid eras, but the ideological positioning of LGBT persons as ‘unnatural’, ‘deviant’, and ‘unequal’ that became deeply …
“unnatural sexual offence” as inherited from the Roman-Dutch law. From 1948 to 1994, under the rule of the National …
OHCHR: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights · 21 November 2022 English
48 National Coalition (n 39) para 88: ‘Such facts would include the following: the respective ages of the partners; the duration of the partnership; whether the partners took part in …
composed of a combination of legislation passed by parliament, and legal precedent which is mainly based on remnants of Roman-Dutch … laws and practices passed through colonisation and judicial practices. …
RWI: Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law · 8 September 2022 English
Special thanks go to the authors of the various chapters for their careful critiques of the state of the law and their analysis of the determinations made by the judiciary …
prospective candidates must have been judges in a Roman-Dutch law or English law jurisdiction, and/or have legal … Africa and Zimbabwe’, Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law (2003) p.19. See In re Certification of the … common law jurisdiction with a component of Roman-Dutch law or English law provided that English is an …
UN: The United Nations · 10 August 2022 English
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Property rights are determined mainly by the Roman Dutch law which stands as the common law of the country …
UN: The United Nations · 27 April 2022 English
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Romeins-Hollandse reg = Journal of contemporary Roman-Dutch law (Johannesburg) 83:528-541, 2020. Kono, T …
