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French civil code now on GitHub

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Post by walshemj »

peeters wrote: post #119

This makes me wonder about how legislators deal with merge conflicts. Since new laws are often written as "Act X of 1972 is amended as follows: ...", I wonder if there are ever cases where two laws are in the House at the same time that would conflict, and how they resolve this. Do they amend the later law once the first has been signed/given assent?

The way it should work is that any conflicts that require changes are noted in the motion - by the clerks drafting the law.

If you pass motion A implementing this new law the Law x and Z a deemed to be negated or changed appropriately.

Re: French civil code now on GitHub

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Post by reinhardt »

scrollaway wrote: post #109
wishiknew wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A quick look at the author's tweets reveals this is not as innocent as you seem to say it is. Plato once said something along the lines of: "those who mix art with politics must be either unsure of their art or of their political positions, if not both". We had engaged musicians, now we have engaged developers. This is all the same trash to me.

https://i.imgur.com/82QXoAj.jpg Here's a tip that will massively improve your personal quality of life: Stop getting offended. Don't you have better things to do with your time?

Kinda ironic as it's usually the uber liberals that tend to get grossly offended by perceived social injustices such as gendered pronouns or dongle jokes.

Re: French civil code now on GitHub

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Post by simlevesque »

masklinn wrote: post #80
mackwic wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's possible to generate a general parser for the Journal Officiel in an afternoon. It would make the author a _very_ efficient worker.

It's probably possible to do that for a crawler of http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr though.

He said in another comment that it's not how he did it.

Re: French civil code now on GitHub

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Post by scrollaway »

reinhardt wrote: post #122
scrollaway wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://i.imgur.com/82QXoAj.jpg Here's a tip that will massively improve your personal quality of life: Stop getting offended. Don't you have better things to do with your time?

Kinda ironic as it's usually the uber liberals that tend to get grossly offended by perceived social injustices such as gendered pronouns or dongle jokes.

"Getting offended" has little to do with political leanings, and a lot to do with being bored and seeking attention. Man-childness, if you will.

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Post by karambahh »

terminalcommand wrote: post #102
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #100

This github repo seems to treat the French legal code as a flat text file. Which is useful, but I'm guessing doesn't do a good job of capturing structural changes to the legal code. Is this fair? So I'm curious: how do legal scholars and practising lawyers track changes to legal systems over time? Do they use trees, DAGs, or something else? Do they have concepts similar to change dependencies and regressions? What sp…

I am at my first year of law school in Turkey, so I might be wrong. But in my country there are private companies who collect and summarize court decisions. They also offer search engines. As far as the changes to regulations go, they are announced in the state paper, with a starting date. All lawyers are obligated to follow the changes. The ministery of justice also offers a service, they collect all the law texts a…

Pretty similar in France. Lamy, a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer is the leading company. They do the same for a bunch of european countries. Spain, Belgium, Germany, etc...
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