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Private Law

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That portion of the law that defines, regulates, enforces, and administers relationships among individuals, associations, and corporations. As used in distinction to public law, the term means that part of the law that is administered between citizen and citizen, or that is concerned with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where both the person in whom the right inheres and the person upon whom the obligation rests are private individuals.


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He succeeds Deputy Mayor Maurice Suh, who is returning to a private law practice.
Emphasis is on private law, including business regulations, commercial and corporate law, and investment regulations, as well as the harmonization of national legislation with the community law of the European Union.
The law also ignores gay Belgians who want to marry their foreign national partners, as Belgian international private law requires that marriage be allowed by the foreign partner's country of origin.
 
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