Latvia
| Legal system family | Civil law |
| How the law works | Based on Napoleonic and German civil law, as it was historically before the Soviet occupation. While general principles of law are prerequisites for making and interpreting the law, case law is also regularly applied to present legal arguments in courts and to explain the law's application in similar cases. Civil law is largely modeled on the Napoleonic Code, with strong elements of German civil law. Criminal law retains Russian and German legal traditions, while criminal procedure law has been fully modeled after the practice accepted in Western Europe. The civil law of Latvia was enacted in 1937. |
| Form of government | parliamentary republic; republic |
| Constitution | – |
| Legislature | Saeima |
| Highest court | Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia |
| Head of state | Edgars Rinkēvičs |
| Head of government | Andris Kulbergs |
| Age of majority | 18 |
| Minimum marriage age | 18 |
| Retirement age | 62.5 |
| Official languages | Latvian |
| Capital | Riga |
| Continent | Europe |
| Population | 1,845,096 |
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