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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by da_chicken on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:19AM (#47554338)
That's true, but it might not be as important here.

Spain is not a country with a Common Law legal system entirely like the US or the UK. They have a civil law system where prior court judgement does not form a strictly binding precedent. Prior judgements can be important, but case law is not really a thing.

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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by tephra on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:45AM (#47554548)
I wonder how true this is, we have the same system in Sweden, that court judgement are not legally binding precedent for lower courts. But in practice lower courts will follow the rulings made by the high court.

Is it not the same in Spain at all?

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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by philistine on Saturday March 28, 2026 @10:59AM (#47555189)
It's the same in Spain, which makes OPs proposal kind of useless. The big distinction between a civil and a common law system is the fundamentals. A country's civil code is properly defined, while a common law's system is based on previous cases you have to dig through to find the basics.
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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by markdown on Saturday March 28, 2026 @06:23PM (#47558637)
> while a common law's system is based on previous cases you have to dig through to find the basics

In other words, you have to hire a lawyer. They really built a great system for themselves, didn't they?

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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by amszmidt on Saturday March 28, 2026 @11:43AM (#47555619)
Would be nice if someone did it with Swedens laws too!
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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by mrimskog on Saturday March 28, 2026 @06:33PM (#47558677)
I built it with Claude Code last summer :) Check it out: https://github.com/se-lex/sfs

It’s generated by this CLI: https://github.com/se-lex/sfs-processor (md with temporal tags, html or Git commits as output format)

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