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Guide to centuries of online German-language legal texts.
An offshoot of the University of Heidelberg's Deutsches Rechts-Wörterbuch (DRW).
(Transcriptions and facsimiles)
Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
(Transcriptions and translations)
Cases, statutes, literature and bibliographies on German law in English language.
(Translations)
German constitutions: national and regional: a major portal.
(1806 - present; transcriptions)

National Documents:

Imperial court statutes
Provided by the Textarchiv des Deutschen Rechtswörterbuchs
(1555; transcriptions).
Imperial decree from shortly after the 30 Years' War
Provided by the Textarchiv des Deutschen Rechtswörterbuchs
(1654; transcriptions).
Documents of the important jurist digitized by the University of Marburg.
(1779-1861; facsimiles)
A major book digitization project of the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte .
For an overview of subjects, click on "Systematik"
(19th century; facsimiles)
(Weimar Republic Constitution of 11 August, 1919; German transcription)
Divided into two sections: laws involving internal affairs and those regulating foreign relations.
Part of the Austrian National Library's online law texts (ALEX Project).
(1922-1944; facsimiles)
Laws and Decrees of the Nazi Era
(1933-1945; German transcriptions)
Historic German constitutions (including Hitler's infamous Ermächtigungsgesetz).
(1815 - present; German transcriptions)
(Constitution of 6 April, 1968 with revisions through 1974; German transcription)
Documents of the Federal Republic of Germany ("West Germany" and then the unified state)
(1948 to the present; German transcriptions)
Prohibition of Communist Party in the Federal Republic
(August 17, 1956; German transcription)
German unification treaties
(31 August 1990; German transcriptions )
Comprehensive and complete online texts of current Federal law
A cooperative project of the Ministry of Justice and juris GmbH
Including Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, Strafgesetzbuch and others.
(Current; German transcriptions)
Recent judicial decisions at the federal and state levels.
(1995-present; German transcriptions).
Press Releases from the German Federal Courts
(1995-present; German transcriptions).
Full-text decisions of the Constitutional Court
(1998-present; German transcriptions).

Regional Documents:

An online compilation of Federal and state laws.
(Current; German transcriptions)
A collection of regional law texts
Used as sources for the Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch(Medieval and early modern periods; facsimiles and transcriptions).
National and regional: a major portal for constitutions of individual states.
(1806 - present; transcriptions)

Baden

Post-Napeonic constitution for the Grand Duchy of Baden
(22 August 1818; German transcription)

Bavaria

(3 September 1293; transcriptions).
Early 16th century criminal statues in Bamberg
(1507; facsimiles).
Early 16th century witchcraft statutes published in Augsburg.
Part of Cornell's Witchcraft Collection.
(1511; transcriptions).
Mid-16th century regional regulations for Bavaria
(1553; facsimiles).
Post-Napeonic constitution for the Kingdom of Bavaria
(26 May 1818; German transcriptio).
Current constitution for the state of Bavaria
(2 December 1946; German transcription plus English, French and Spanish translations).
Publication of the postwar Bavarian government
(1945-1949; facsimiles)

Hessen

Frankfurt reformation of the sixteenth century
(1578; facsimiles).
Constitution for the Grand Duchy of Hessen
(17 December 1820; German transcription).
1831 constitution for the Principality of Hessen
(5 January 1831; German transcription).
Electronic library of the Hessian parliament.
Includes archive of legal and legislative documents (dokumentenarchiv).
(1945 to the present; German facsimiles)

Lower Saxony

City ordinances of Goslar
(Transcriptions).
Constitution of Lower Saxony with amendments through 1993
(German transcription)

Palatinate

Regulations for the Palatinate of the late sixteenth century
(1582; facsimiles).

Pomerania

Municipal laws for Rostock in the late sixteenth century
(1586; facsimiles of print source).

Saarland

Constitution (and other legal documents) for the state of Saarland
(15 December 1947; German transcription)

Saxony

A set of historical and legal documents (land and fiefdom rights) from Saxony & vicinity.
(Early 14th century; German facsimiles).
Commercial laws of Leipzig
(1683; German facsimiles)
Constitution for the Kingdom of Saxony
(4 September 1831; German transcription)
Historical proceedings of the Saxon state parliament.
Digitized by the Sächsische Landesbibliothek -- Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
(1919-1933 & 1946-1952; facsimiles)

Schleswig

Mid-15th century ordinances for Dithmarschen
(1447; transcriptions).

Württemberg

Mid-16th century regional regulations for Württemberg
(1552; facsimiles).
Post-Napeonic constitution for the Kingdom of Württemberg
(25 September 1819; German transcription)

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