The Burgerlijk Wetboek (or BW) is the
civil code of the
Netherlands. Early permutations were largely based on the
Napoleonic code. Given substantive reform in 1992, the Dutch Civil Code now adopts much from the
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB), the German Civil Code. The Code deals with the rights of individuals (Book 1), legal entities (Book 2), the rights of property (Book 3) and succession (Book 4). It also sets out the law of obligations (Book 5) and of contracts (Books 6-7). Proposed amendments will add Books on intellectual property and private international law.
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