Open AccessBURGELIJK WETBOEK (Menelusuri Sejarah Hukum Pemberlakuannya di Indonesia)
Author(s) -
Erie Hariyanto
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
al-ihkam : jurnal hukum dan pranata sosial
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2442-3084
pISSN - 1907-591X
DOI - 10.19105/al-lhkam.v4i1.268
Subject(s) - political science , legislature , law , civil law (civil law) , order (exchange) , humanities , commercial law , philosophy , economics , finance
Burgelijk Wetboek or the book of civil law is historicallyderived from Dutch. It has been applied on the basis ofconcordancy principle; in fact, the legislative institutionhas not published civil laws that being coded and unifiedyet. It is urgent to apply new laws that exclusively managelaw of contract (in particular or general) as a part of civillaws, in order to support the economic activity of nation.Dutch has already revised their own Burgelijk Weboek thathas been applied in Indonesia.