Key documents of Burmese law
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Drafted from the early British colonial period. Much of the content of "The Burma Code", e.g. "The Penal Code", "Code of Civil Procedure" and other procedural texts, is still in force and constitutes the basis of Burmese/Myanmar law...The Myanmar Supreme Court website has a set online, but at an average of 71MB per volume, virtually unusable. We have sought to reduce the volume size to reasonable size. Best downloaded or read online with Google Chrome.
Source/publisher:
Government of the Union of Burma
Date of entry/update:
2014-01-04
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Key documents of Burmese law
Language:
English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Individual Documents
Source/publisher:
Government of the Union of Burma
Date of publication:
1861-05-01
Date of entry/update:
2014-01-09
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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pdf
Size:
20.13 MB
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Source/publisher:
Government of the Union of Burma
Date of publication:
1861-05-01
Date of entry/update:
2014-01-09
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Key documents of Burmese law, The Penal Code
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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pdf
Size:
12.11 MB
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Sections:
1. Application of Act....
2. * * * *...
3. Interpretation clause...
4. ?May presume.?...
? Shall presume. ?
? Conclusive proof. *....."The
Evidence
Act
of
1872
sets
out
the
rules
of
evidence
in
Myanmar.
The
Evidence
Act
establishes
rules
similar
in
form
and
content
to
those
in
other
former
British
colonies
in
the
region
and
in
Britain
today.
6
The
Evidence
Act
is
applicable
to
all
judicial
proceedings
before
any
court
7
and
to
all
judges
or
other
persons
legally
authorized
to
hear
evidence.
8
However,
the
Evidence
Act
does
not
apply
to
arbitrations..." (Alec Christie)
Source/publisher:
Government of the Union of Myanmar via "The Burma Code" (Myanmar Code), Vol. XII
Date of publication:
1872-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2013-04-30
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Key documents of Burmese law, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to the judiciary (texts), "The Burma Code" Vol. XII
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
1.56 MB
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Description:
Scanned from "The Burma Code" Vol. XII. 1979 edition
Source/publisher:
Government of the Union of Burma via "The Burma Code" Vol. XII (1979 Edition)
Date of publication:
1909-01-01
Date of entry/update:
2012-12-25
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Key documents of Burmese law, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to the judiciary (texts), "The Burma Code" Vol. XII
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
8.33 MB
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Description:
TABLE OF CONTENTS (157K)...
PART I - LEGAL PRACTIONERS AND PETITION WRITERS (1.8MB)...
PART II - INSTRUCTIONS AND ORDERS RELATING TO BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (2.9MB)...
PART III - CIVIL PROCEDURE (4MB)...
PART IV - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (6.8MB)...
APPENDICES (1.3MB)...
THE COURTS MANUAL - ENGLISH (17MB) Full text...
THE COURTS MANUAL ? ENGLISH AND BURMESE (26MB) Full text
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Supreme Court
Date of publication:
1999-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2012-12-15
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Key documents of Burmese law, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to the judiciary (texts)
Language:
English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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pdf
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56.64 KB
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The official bilingual version...The date given here is the date of printing. The date of adoption of the Constitution is 29 May 2008
Source/publisher:
State Peace and Development Council (SPDC)
Date of publication:
2008-09-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-11
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
National constitutions, draft constitutions, amendments and announcements (texts), Key documents of Burmese law, Burma/Myanmar laws, decrees and regulations (State Peace and Development Council), 2008, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (texts)
Language:
English, Burmese (ျမန္မာဘာသာ)
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pdf
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698.01 KB
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Table of contents followed by all 511 articles, in one big document...
(INDIA ACT XLV. 1860) (1st May. 1861)
The pdf version is based on the BLC version. A spell-check was run on the BLC version and checked against a hard-copy version of the "Myanmar Code". The hard-copy version was taken as authoritative and the text amended accordingly. Some obvious mistakes exist in the hard-copy original. These are left as-is, followed by "[sic. "xxxx" is presumably intended"]". The BLC version does not contain all the footnotes which exist in the hard-copy version. These will be added in a Corr.2
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via Burma Lawyers? Council via Online Burma/Myanmar Library
Date of publication:
1861-05-01
Date of entry/update:
2006-03-16
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
The Penal Code, Key documents of Burmese law, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to the judiciary (texts), "The Burma Code" Vol. VIII
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
784.6 KB
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Source/publisher:
Government of the Union of Burma via "The Burma Code" Vol. VIII, via Burma Lawyers? Council
Date of publication:
1898-07-01
Date of entry/update:
2005-06-24
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
"The Burma Code" Vol. VIII, Key documents of Burmese law, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to the judiciary (texts)
Language:
English
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