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Estonian legal system
is a Continental law system. The system is based
on Roman Law and Court decisions are not source
of law. The sourse of law is written, enacted by
the Parliament (Riigikogu, home page: www.riigikogu.ee).
Estonian legal system has influences from many countries
in Europe, but main influence comes from Germany.
Law is devided into 2 main categories: private and
public law.
Private law is for example obligation law, family
law, property law etc.
Ppublic law for example tax law, administrative
law, procedural law, criminal
law etc.
If you need to find questions about Estonian law,
you have to find concerning legal act. The official
site of legal acts is: www.riigiteataja.ee
There are translations into English and Russian.
Translations you can find at www.legaltext.ee
Here are links of main Estonian legal acts. Note:
Estonian legal acts may contain many amendments
and law can change more quicly than in other European
countries!
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