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Legal system familyCivil law
How the law worksInfluenced by the Napoleonic Code, it also incorporates elements of Spain's legal tradition, beginning with the Siete Partidas, a major legislative achievement of the Middle Ages. That body of law remained more or less unchanged until the 19th century, when the first civil codes were drafted, merging both the Napoleonic style with the Castilian traditions. Aragon, Balearics, the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, and Navarre still have its own private law (the so-called foral law) which predates and survived the Spanish process of uniformisation, in the Catalan case, its private law is currently fully codificated in the form of the Civil Code of Catalonia.
Form of governmentparliamentary monarchy
Constitution–
LegislatureCortes Generales
Highest courtConstitutional Court of Spain
Head of stateFelipe VI of Spain
Head of governmentPedro Sánchez
Age of majority18
Minimum marriage age18
Retirement age65
Official languagesSpanish
CapitalMadrid
ContinentEurope
Population48,592,909

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