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Belgian Law: Bibliographic Guide to Reference Materials, 1830–1990

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Christian F. Verbeke
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No unified or codified Belgian system of law existed before the French Revolution, as each county, principality or region had in effect its own set of laws, and one does therefore before 1795 refer to Flemish, Brabant, Liège, Namur, Waesland, etc. laws, or to specific customary laws of cities, e.g. Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp, or of smaller towns, e.g. the customs of Alost, Eekloo, or the Judgements of Damme (for maritime law), to name but a few; these so-called coutumiers were published in both the French and Flemish (Dutch) languages.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , Summer 1992 , pp. 133 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by The Institute for International Legal Information 

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* It is estimated that up to 33% of Belgium's treaty texts (exclusive of secret treaties) are for various reasons never actually published. This phenomenon is to be examined in a study by Jean Salmon, professor of international law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles entitled Communication aux Chambres et Publication des Traités to be published in a forthcoming volume of Mélanges Jacques Velu.Google Scholar