Légifrance

{{Short description|Website for French legal information}} {{Title language|fr}} {{Infobox website | name = {{Lang|fr|Légifrance}} | logo = | url = {{Official URL}} | commercial = No | type = Public service and legal information portal | language = French | owner = French government | current_status = Active }} '''{{lang|fr|Légifrance}}''' ({{IPA|fr|leʒifʁɑ̃s}}) is the official website of the French government for the publication of legislation, regulations, and legal information. It was established by decree in 2002.{{sfn legifrance|JORFID|PRMX0205968A|text=Decree of 9 October 2002 regarding the Légifrance website}} Access to the site is free.

Virtually complete, it presents or refers to all concerned institutions or administrations, all texts still in force since 1539 <ref>[http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=20110726&cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070939 Légifrance] Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts of 10 August 1539.</ref> and all the upper courts jurisprudence since 1986 as well as the most pertinent one of all courts since 1875.<ref>[http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichJuriAdmin.do?oldAction=rechJuriAdmin&idTexte=CETATEXT000007633029 Légifrance] C.E. 19 February 1875, Prince Napoléon, 46707.</ref>

==See also== * {{lang|fr|Journal Officiel de la République Française}}

==References== ''All texts in French unless otherwise noted.'' {{sfn whitelist |CITEREFLegifrance}} {{cite legifrance}} {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website}} * {{lang|fr|2=[http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=PRMX0205836D Décret n° 2002-1064 du 7 août 2002 relatif au service public de la diffusion du droit par l'internet]}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20041105011817/http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/RechercheSimpleLegi.jsp laws and regulations], including updated versions of some important texts; * [https://web.archive.org/web/20041111010938/http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/ListeCodes the Codes]; * [https://web.archive.org/web/20041105003944/http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/RechercheSimpleJorf.jsp laws, regulations and personal measures] as published in the {{lang|fr|Journal Officiel de la République Française}}

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