Law of Finland
As a legal Finland is defined as the totality of court enforceable social norms in Finland.
- 4.1 Corporate Law
Legal History
Finland became in 1917 the full state independence. His legal history is thus intimately linked with the history of law in Sweden. As there was long the old Germanic local customary law, which was collected in the Middle Ages in private legal records. The reception of Roman law took place indirectly via the right study of young Finns mainly in Germany but also in Italy and France input. Since 1640 was with the Academy to Turku also has its own Finnish university. The most important Finnish legal scholar of this time was Michael Wexionius.
1734 joined the Sveriges rikes was - a law book in nine books, which contained the entire general law of Sweden - in Finland and remained in force even after the assignment of the new Grand Duchy of Russia the law. 1863 for the first time the Finnish parliament was reconvened, the began to fall some reforms of the law of 1734 in transition. The most important are a reform of the marriage law and criminal law in 1889 and a reform of guardianship legislation in 1898. The relatively large autonomy that time ended with a first Russifizierungswelle the late 19th century.
1917 Finland finally became independent. As a result, a gradual development from an agricultural state to an industrial state in motion sat. The legal climate remained generally conservative. A liberal reform of the Marriage Law of 1929 should be collected: the formal equality of man and woman as well as adjustments in the matrimonial property made Finland a pioneer in Europe. The industrialization developed after the hesitant beginnings, between the world wars from 1945 until full, but in the more erstaunlicherer speed and brought in legislation the welfare state itself. The modern Finnish law is beside heavily influenced by the effects of European law and legal unification of the Nordic countries.