Chile
| Legal system family | Civil law |
| How the law works | The Chilean Civil Code, based on the Napoleonic Civil Law, was also heavily influenced by the Spanish legal tradition. In turn, the Chilean civil code, to a large degree, influenced the drafting of the civil codes of other Latin-American states. For instance, the codes of Ecuador (1861) and Colombia (1873) constituted faithful reproductions of the Chilean code, but for very few exceptions. The compiler of the Civil Code of Chile, Venezuelan Andrés Bello, worked for its completion for almost 30 years, using elements of the Spanish law on the one hand, and of other Western laws, especially of the French one, on the other. It is noted that he consulted and used all the codes issued up to then, dating back to the era of Justinian. The Civil Code came into effect on 1 January 1857. The influence of the Napoleonic Code and the Law of Castile of the Spanish colonial period (especially the Siete Partidas), is great; it is observed however that e.g. in many provisions of property or contract law, the solutions of the French code civil were put aside in favor of pure Roman law or Castilian law. |
| Form of government | democratic republic |
| Constitution | – |
| Legislature | National Congress of Chile |
| Highest court | Supreme Court of Chile |
| Head of state | José Antonio Kast |
| Head of government | José Antonio Kast |
| Age of majority | 18 |
| Minimum marriage age | 18 |
| Retirement age | – |
| Official languages | Spanish |
| Capital | Santiago |
| Continent | South America |
| Population | 19,458,000 |
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