摘要：The Latvian system of private law is based on the Civil Law, which was adopted in 1937 and came into forceon 1 January 1938. After the restoration of independence, Latvia, in a departure from the approach of theother two Baltic States, did not draft a new civil law but, in the early 1990s, reinstated the law that hadbeen adopted prior to World War II. The Civil Law has more than 2,400 sections, which unite and organisewithin a uniform system the most important provisions of private law. The Civil Law consists of an introductionand four parts: on family, inheritance, property, and the law of obligations. When reinstating theCivil Law, the legislator modernised it to the extent necessary to resume its application under the conditionsof the last decade of the 20th century. The amendments that have been made to the Civil Law since the fi rsthalf of the 1990s have affected mainly family and inheritance law. The amendments to the part on the law ofobligations have not been too great; however, most of them have been essential. Over the last two decades,the Civil Law has proved its viability and practical suitability. The high degree of abstraction typical of theCivil Law’s provisions signifi cantly facilitates their application in practice
