Abbreviations of German statutes/Gesetzesabkürzungen
am 02.05.2005 von http://transblawg.euCiting German legislation: BGB DE: (all references) BGB EN: (first reference) Civil Code [or German Civil Code] (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch - BGB) (second reference): either BGB or Civil Code …
German Civil Code translation into English/BGB ins Englische übersetzt
Transblawg / LAWgical reports that the German Civil Code is being translated into English, to appear online. All 5 books are to be translated into British English by autumn 2005 and appear online as part of the German Federal Ministry of Justice’s...…
German Civil Code in English/BGB auf Englisch online
Transblawg / The Bundesjustizministerium has put an English translation of the German Civil Code online. It was done by Langenscheidt Übersetzungsservice. The same provisos apply as in the last entry with reference to translations of the Criminal Code! I w…
BGB in Englisch / German Civil Code in English
Weblawg.de / Last butn´t least! Quelle: www.gesetze-im-internet.de ... German Civil Code now available in English The German Federal Ministry of Justice has commissioned a translation of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (or BGB), the civil code of Germany. The tra…
Key German Statute in English
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. As of September 6, 2006, the German Civil Code, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch is available in a government-sponsored English translation at www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb. A press release from the Berlin Attorney Gener…
200 Jahre Code Civil
Handakte WebLAWg / Am Freitag, den 26.11.2004, findet an der Universität des Saarlandes ein Kolloquium zum zweihundertjährigen Jubiläum des Code Civil statt. Beginn...…
Punitive damages / Strafschadensersatz
Transblawg / Professor Volker Behr wrote a paper in 2003 in which he said that the USA and Germany are moving closer together on the issue of punitive damages. The USA has always recognized both a compensatory and a punitive element in damages, but they are …
Abuse of Prosecution
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Prosecutors and courts are short on resources in North Rhine-Westphalia. Huge sums are spent on their criminal investigations of alleged copyright violations by Internet users. The Wuppertal D.A. is now in trouble with the mu…
Claim to Art and Artful Claims
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. On October 24, 2005, the highest German court for civil matters, the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe, decided on a claim by the owner of a Oskar Schlemmer painting against an heir of the painter. The heir had stated--in a confi…
Highway Code/Straßenverkehrsgesetz
Transblawg / Following a discussion about Schrittgeschwindigkeit (dead slow) on an ITI list, may I remind people that the Highway Code (British road rules) is online. The German Straßenverkehrsgesetz (Road Traffic Act) is too. Here’s an AmE>BE driv…
Streitwert-Hitliste
neues aus schwabenheim / Toll Collect - 5.100.000.000,00 € FlowTex - 1.135.226.552,98 € Tippfehler - 550.000.000,00 €…
More Extraterritoriality
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / LL - Washington. The German Federal Ministry of Justice prepares to close of a gap in transnational corruption enforcement. On May 30, 2007, the federal cabinet in Berlin decided to amend the corruption provisions of the German Crimin…
Leapfrogging / Bockspringen
Legalesed / Lately, we’ve been going over the U.S. court system in class and last week we stumbled across the word “direct appeal.” One of my students asked for a translation into German and I responded off-hand with “Sprungrevision̶…
