Abstract

VAZQUEZ Y DEL ARBOL, ESTHER. Comparative legal aspects of birth in Great Britain and Spain. Rev. Derecho Privado [online]. 2019, n.37, pp.317-338. ISSN 0123-4366.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01234366.n37.12.

Birth plays a meaningful role within the civil law Area. Their (legal, documentary, registry, etc) features differ from one culture to another, this is even reinforced when countries from different legal systems (common law versus civil law ones) are compared. Due to this reason, the purpose of this research, by means of a contrastive approach of the relevant legislation and the documents attached thereto, is to search for both diverging and concurrent features of this relevant legal act within the legal systems mentioned above. Therefore, the present paper introduces the results of the contrast of this legal act in United Kingdom (common law) and Spain (civil law). Correspondingly, both divergent and convergent issues thereof will be hereby showed.

Keywords : birth; legal systems; common law; civil law; United Kingdom; Spain.

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