- Egyptian Civil Code
The Egyptian Civil Code is the primary source of civil law for the
Egypt .The first version of Egyptian Civil Code was written in
1949 . The prime author of the 1949 code wasAbdel-Razzak Al-Sanhuri , who received assistance from DeanEdouard Lambert of the University of Lille. Perhaps due to Lambert's influence, the 1949 code followed the French civil law model. The code focus on the regulation of business and commerce, and does not include any provisions regardingfamily law .The code also provides for
Islamic law to have a role in its enforcement and interpretation. Article 1 of the code provides that, “in the absence of any applicable legislation, thejudge shall decide according to the custom and failing the custom, according to the principles of Islamic Law. In the absence of these principles, the judge shall have recourse tonatural law and the rules of equity.” Despite this invocation of Islamic law, one commentator has argued that 1949 code reflected a "hodgepodge of socialist doctrine and sociological jurisprudence." [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/ils/2001/00000008/00000002/art00003]The Egyptian Civil Code has been the source of law and inspiration for numerous other Middle Eastern jurisdictions, including pre-
dictatorship kingdoms of Libya,Jordan and Iraq (both drafted by El-Sanhuri himself and a team of native jurists under his guidance),Bahrain , as well asQatar (this last two merely inspired by his notions), and the commercial code ofKuwait (drafet by El-Sanhuri).Bibliography
*Hoyle, Mark, "The Mixed Courts of Egypt", (1991), ISBN 1-85333-321-2.
External links
* [http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/colloquium/papers/Baadepaper.doc Hans W. Baade, "Transplants of Laws and of Lawyers", University of Texas colloquia paper]
* [http://www.protectionproject.org/m/iord.htm Mohamed Mattar, "Islamic Law, Common Law, and Civil Law: The Place of Islamic Law in the Legal Family"]
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