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The Spanish Criminal Code of 1822 came into force in Bolivia on 2 April 1831. It was replaced by the Penal Code of 1834. [7] A Law of 3 September 1883 made provision in relation to perjury. [8] Bolivia now has a new Penal Code of 23 August 1972. [9] [10] There was a Code of Criminal Procedure of 6 August 1898.
The 2009 Constitution defines Bolivia as a unitary plurinational, and secular (rather than a Catholic, as before) state, formally known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia. It calls for a mixed economy of state, private, and communal ownership; restricts private land ownership to a maximum of 5,000 hectares (12,400 acres ); and recognizes a ...
The law enumerates seven specific rights to which Mother Earth and her constituent life systems, including human communities, are entitled: [9] To life: It is the right to the maintenance of the integrity of life systems and natural processes which sustain them, as well as the capacities and conditions for their renewal
Based on Islamic law and the Egyptian civil law system (after the French civil law system) Syria: Mainly based on French Civil Code. Islamic law is applicable to family law. Non-Muslims follow their own family laws. United Arab Emirates: Mixed legal system, based on Islamic law and the Egyptian civil law system (after the French civil law system).
It is the successor to the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth and was initially designed as the full version of that law. According to Derrick Hindery, "the law clearly reflects both the more environmentally progressive ideals pushed by the Unity Pact and the extractivist agenda of the Morales administration."
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Law of Bolivia" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The politics of Bolivia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president is head of state, head of government and head of a diverse multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament.
The law of South America is one of the most unified in the world. All countries but Guyana [1] can be said to follow civil law systems, although recent developments in the law of Brazil suggest a move towards the stare decisis doctrine.