Iraqi Civil Code No. (40) of 1951 In light of the foundations on which it is based (a comparative study)

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Mohammed Hanoun Jafar

Abstract

raq was part of the Ottoman Empire, and it was subject to the provisions of this amputation of laws, so Iraq applied the Code of Justice sentences developed by a committee of religious scholars in Istanbul, which represented the most likely views in the Hannifin School, as it represents the civil law for him.


After the independence of Iraq and the formation of its national government after 1921, the government's efforts aimed at establishing a national Iraqi civil law. Therefore, three committees were set up for this purpose, one in 1933, the second in 1936, and the third in 1943. The last committee was made up of Abdul Razzaq Ahmad Al-Senhoury and the membership of Iraqi law professors and judges and government of the draft of the new civil law. And it's called (Iraqi Civil Code No. 40 of 1951.


That the research on the foundations of this law is the subject of this research, where we divided it into two sections, we devoted the first, to determine what is the Iraqi civil law, and our second specialist, to discuss the foundations on which this law was based

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محمد حنون جعفر. (2022). Iraqi Civil Code No. (40) of 1951 In light of the foundations on which it is based (a comparative study). MIsan Journal of Comparative Legal Studies, 1(7), 27–45. https://doi.org/10.61266/mjcls.v1i7.122
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