Spanish Constitutional Court: Structure, Powers, and Legal Framework
**The Spanish Model of Constitutional Justice**
The Constitutional Court (CC) is one of the most characteristic notes of the Spanish model, setting a standard for efficiency and fundamental judicial review. As a basic tool for such efficiency, a Constitutional Court was established, regulated in Title IX of the Constitution. The CC was born as one of the key pieces of the system of organization and distribution of power, and its primary function is to act as the “supreme interpreter of the Constitution”
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Composition of the Courts
The composition of the courts is divided into two: the Congress and the Senate.
The Congress of Deputies
- Minimum 300 and maximum of 400, the current number is 350.
- Constituency: Is the province with the exception of Ceuta and Melilla, which are represented by one deputy each.
- Distribution system of provincial seats: The constitution only states that the law will distribute the total number of deputies, assigning a minimum initial representation to each other constituency and
Contracts and Trade Agreements: Legal Framework for Business
The Contract
The law provides security to the relationship between people and enforceability of the duties that some have compared to others. Without security and enforceability, social life could not unfold properly. A person is in a legal relationship with another by various causes, a relation which determines that one of them has a right against the other, it being required to realize this right or not to hamper its exercise. Some causes are beyond their control and are determined by the situation
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The Contract in General
It is the expression of intent and also is a concurrence of two or more persons to form in them a commitment to resolve or edit an existing one.
The contract is an agreement whereby both parties mutually, or just one of the two, promises and obligations to the other to give or not to do something a certain situation. It is noteworthy that the contract is a legal agreement. It is also the largest source of obligations, and we find it daily. It manifests itself as a great tool
Read MoreLegal Systems of the Iberian Peninsula: High Middle Ages to Late Medieval Period
Topic 1: Brief Definition of the Legal System Preceding the High Middle Ages
1. The High Middle Ages: History and Law
A) Visigothic Law
The Visigoths began to penetrate the Iberian Peninsula in the early 5th century and became holders of power until the arrival of Muslims in 711. Their law was based on custom and evolved from the 5th to the 7th century. They were interested in using the Roman law of the previous stage due to:
- In this law, the lawyers helped to justify autocratic forms of government
Family Law in Spain: Marriage, Partnerships, and Legal Rights
Question No. 1
Mariola and Isidore have lived together as unmarried partners for twenty years in Salamanca, the birthplace of both. They have two children: Xavier, who is twenty and in his third year of journalism studies, and Ana, fifteen, who is studying second ESO. Javier is adopted; to conceive Ana, Mariola and Isidore had to resort to in vitro fertilization. Isidore is forty-five and Mariola is forty-three. Isidore’s net income currently revolves around 4,500 euros per month. Mariola abandoned
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