Law of Sweden
The law in Sweden is the sum judicially enforceable social norms in Sweden.
- 3.1 Company law
Legal History
Starting point of the history of Swedish as all the Nordic legal systems, the validity of the old Germanic law. From the 12th century they began to hold these rights in records of the local land ( landskapslagar ) and city law. Finally, in the 14th century that a uniform land law and a single municipal law for the whole of Sweden to enforce. Especially after the end of the Thirty Years' War, Sweden entered by the influence of the Protestant German universities into contact with the Roman law -received. As 1614, the Svea hofrätt and 1634 the Göta was founded hofrätt, it was obvious that these were staffed with trained on Roman law, professional judges; particularly in contract law, where the current law was strongly incomplete, thus penetrated Roman law to Sweden - but without being able to come in Sweden to a real desk.
The urge for unification of law eventually led to the 1734 introduction of the Sveriges rikes was: a law book in nine books ( balkar ) 1300 paragraphs, containing the whole of the general laws of Sweden. The relatively small influence of Roman law shows here, especially in the prevention of general principles and learned language. The Code of 1734 was based on case reports rather typical situations that were described in simple language and is overall to be a more conservative return to Germanic law. The entire state constitutional law and the law of the guilds and trade was controlled separately, for the Law of the Sea, a special law was adopted in 1667. Criminal law stood in the 18th century under the sign of liberalization: Gustav III. campaigned for the abolition of torture and the death penalty, however, was able to prevail only partially against conservative resistance.
Especially in the 19th century it was missing under the influence of the French codifications not to attempts at reform 1811 was completed on a commission with a mandate to create a new code of laws. This put their results in 1826 in a new Civil Code, the Civil closely resembled the French code. Liberal ideas like the equality of women and the same inheritance for siblings held primarily in family and inheritance law collection. Resistance from the conservative side prevented, therefore, that the draft were ever put into force as a whole. It remained in the gradual reform in individual areas.
From the mid 19th century, the influence of the French law has been pushed back in favor of the German historical school. From the last third of the 19th century there was increased cooperation between the Scandinavian countries, which led in many areas to unification of law in the entire Scandinavian region. Formally, the law is from 1734 to the present, either reformed or obsolete form in force.