French law has a dual jurisdictional system comprising private law (droit privé), also known as judicial law, and public law (droit public). Judicial law...

French nationality law is historically based on the principles of jus soli (Latin for "right of soil") and jus sanguinis, according to Ernest Renan's...

Law French (Middle English: Lawe Frensch) is an archaic language originally based on Anglo-Norman, but increasingly influenced by Parisian French and...

system of the French Republic. The field of criminal law is defined as a sector of French law, and is a combination of public and private law, insofar...

The droit d'auteur or French authors' rights law, is in the jurisdiction of France a set of exclusive prerogatives available to a creator over his or...

secondary schools. The law is an amendment to the French Code of Education that expands principles founded in existing French law, especially the constitutional...

French labour law is the system of labour law operating in France. During the French Revolution, the Le Chapelier Law 1791 was passed to prohibit unions...

depending on the type, function and magazine capacity of the weapon. In 1563, King Charles IX of France made an address to the Rouen parliament about forbidding...

Law enforcement in France is centralized at the national level. Recently, legislation has allowed local governments to hire their own police officers...

French company law is the law governing corporations incorporated in France or under French corporate law. In the wake of the French Revolution in 1791...