German contract law is rooted in the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch), which went into effect on 1 January 1900.
[1] Reforms of the law since then have included the 2001 Act to Modernise the Law of Obligations.
[1] Major works in English examining the Gernan law of obligations include The Law of Torts by European legal scholar Basil Markesinis.
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