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A civil-law country in south-eastern Europe with no single civil code, a parliamentary republic with a directly elected President, a prosecution service inside the judiciary, a notarial deed and public registers at the centre of property law, and a legal order shaped by membership of the European Union, the Schengen area and, since 2026, the euro. How the system works, how to live, work and buy there, and why a notarial deed matters. Free articles, organized by subject, growing every week.
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Who This Page Is For
This portal collects material on Bulgarian law, a civil-law system with no single civil code: private law is spread across the Law on Obligations and Contracts, the Property Act, the Family Code, the Inheritance Act and the Commercial Act, the Constitution of 1991 is the supreme law, EU law runs through almost every field, and the judiciary includes the prosecution service. It is written for readers who visit, live, work, study, buy property or do business in Bulgaria, for Bulgarians who want to understand their own legal system, and for anyone comparing legal systems, and it explains laws, institutions and procedures without giving legal advice or opinions on individual cases. Laws change, and the judicial reform has been contested. Everywhere else on this site, content reflects US law unless a page says otherwise.
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Bulgarian Law
A first course in Bulgarian law: medieval and Ottoman legal traditions and the Tarnovo Constitution and the Constitution of 1991, the National Assembly and the President and the Council of Ministers, the unitary state and municipalities and Bulgarian citizenship and the rights of EU citizens and non-EU nationals, the three-level courts and the Supreme Court of Cassation and the administrative courts and the prosecution service and the reform of the judiciary, rights and the Constitutional Court and the fourteen-day administrative appeal, the Law on Obligations and Contracts and the notarial deed and the Property Register and foreigners and land and the Family Code and reserved shares, companies and the Commercial Register and the Labour Code and tax, and criminal procedure and EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Legal documents
0 legal documents in Български (Bulgarian)
Leases, loan and sale agreements, powers of attorney, family documents, letters and more, ready to fill in and sign, in Български (Bulgarian), with the English translation alongside for the other party. PDF and Word. 6 € for a document in the language, 9 € with the English translation. Included in the individual All-Access plan, in the language you choose.
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These are general templates for use in any country, each with a ‘check in your country’ list. They are not drafted under Bulgaria law, and they are not legal advice.
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The Civil Law Tradition
Where Bulgarian private law comes from and what it shares with France, Germany, Italy and the other legal systems of continental Europe: the Roman roots, the great codes and legal science.
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