The law of Croatia is part of the legal system of Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

. It belongs to the civil law legal system

Civil law (legal system)

Civil law is a legal system inspired by Roman law and whose primary feature is that laws are codified into collections, as compared to common law systems that gives great precedential weight to common law on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different...

. It is grounded on the principles laid out in the Constitution of Croatia

Constitution of Croatia

The current Constitution of the Republic of Croatia was adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia on December 22, 1990. It replaced the Constitution of 1974 ratified in socialist Yugoslavia...

 and safeguarded by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia.

Historically it has been influenced by Austrian law

Law of Austria

Austria in 2008 had 141 district courts with civil jurisdiction. There were also 20 provincial courts with civil and criminal jurisdiction and four higher provincial courts with criminal jurisdiction, located in Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, and Linz...

, as the institutional framework was built on the base of Austrian institutions. Significant historical influences were also those of the laws of and Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 and Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

. During the Accession of Croatia to the European Union

Accession of Croatia to the European Union

Croatia applied for European Union membership in 2003, and the European Commission recommended making it an official candidate in early 2004. Candidate country status was granted to Croatia by the European Council in mid-2004...

, the legal system was almost completely harmonised with European Union law

European Union law

European Union law is a body of treaties and legislation, such as Regulations and Directives, which have direct effect or indirect effect on the laws of European Union member states. The three sources of European Union law are primary law, secondary law and supplementary law...

.

The Law on Obligations dates to 2005.

See also

• Law enforcement in Croatia
  Law enforcement in Croatia
  Law enforcement in Croatia is the responsibility of the Police , which is a public service of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, carrying out certain tasks, the so called, police activities, laid down by law....
  
  
• Croatian Parliament
• Narodne novine
  Narodne novine
  Narodne novine is the official gazette of the Republic of Croatia which publishes laws, regulations, appointments and official decisions and releases them in the public domain...
  
  
• Croatian nationality law
  Croatian nationality law
  right|100pxThe Croatian nationality law dates back from June 26, 1991. It is based upon the Constitution of Croatia . It is mainly based on Jus sanguinis.-External links:**...
  
  
• Murder (Croatian law)
  Murder (Croatian law)
  -Murder with Special Circumstances:Any murder of a police officer, child under the age of 14, murder of multiple people, or murder committed along with any violent felony classifies as murder with special circumstances. It is punishable with no less than 30 years and no more than 40...
  
  
• Life imprisonment in Croatia
  Life imprisonment in Croatia
  , there is no life imprisonment in Croatia. The Criminal Code prescribes long-time imprisonment - 20 to 40 years - for the most severe criminal offenses...
  
  
• Capital punishment in Croatia
  Capital punishment in Croatia
  Capital punishment in Croatia was abolished in 1990, when it was explicitly outlawed by article 21 of the new Constitution.Hanging was replaced by firing squads in 1959 in Yugoslavia with the last execution in 1987. Protocol number six of the European Convention on Human Rights came into force on...
  
  
• Ministry of Justice (Croatia)
  Ministry of Justice (Croatia)
  The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of prosecuting government cases and the administration of institutions falling within the scope of the judiciary system ....