Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these Spanish legal instruments by the year they were enacted.
- The Organic Law of the Judiciary, 1985
- The Constitution, 1978
- The Civil Procedure Act, 2000
- The Criminal Code, 1995
- The Civil Code, 1889
Hints
- The oldest of the five is nearly a century older than the next.
- The judiciary statute precedes the criminal code by a decade.
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- The Civil Code, 1889
- The Constitution, 1978
- The Organic Law of the Judiciary, 1985
- The Criminal Code, 1995
- The Civil Procedure Act, 2000
Why
The gap between the first and the second is the substantive point. The Civil Code predates the Constitution by nearly ninety years and remains in force, which is why so much of Spanish private law is read through provisions written for a very different constitutional order, and why the constitutional interpretation of old code articles is a standing occupation of the courts.
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