In Sweden, there is a system of administrative courts that considers only administrative law cases, and is completely separate from the system of general courts.

The only type of incestuous relationship allowed by law in Sweden is that between half-siblings.

The 1686 church law ( kyrkolagen ) of the Kingdom of Sweden ( which at the time included all of modern Sweden, Finland, and Estonia ) enforced literacy on the people, and by 1800 the ability to read was close to 100 %.

This is because many of the issues and areas that in other countries are regulated through state or federal law, e. g. working hours, minimum wage and right to overtime compensation, in Sweden instead are regulated through collective agreements between trade union and employer organisation representatives.

* Radical principles and the legal institution of marriage: domestic relations law and social democracy in Sweden – Bradley 4 ( 2 ): 154 – International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family

In Sweden, for instance, case law arguably plays a more important role than in some of the Continental civil law systems.

" After Descartes died in Sweden, Queen Christina abdicated her throne to convert to Roman Catholicism ( Swedish law required a Protestant ruler ).

On June 16, 2009, the Parliament of Sweden passed a law dropping the peace time draft.

Public schools were made mandatory in Sweden by law in 1842 and the influence of school teachers increased, as did the pressure to reform Swedish spelling.

** In Sweden, the law of 1864 that criminalizes homosexuality is abolished.

* 1280 – King Magnus I of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry-member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.

He also passed the first law towards gender equality in Sweden when he in 1845 declared that brothers and sisters should have equal inheritance, unless there was a will.

* King Magnus III of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry-member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.

After hitchhiking through the USA and Mexico, he returned to Sweden to study law at Stockholm University.

Before the law requiring a mandatory crash test in 1970 there was a booming kit car industry in Sweden with most companies basing their kits on the VW Beetle chassis.

* Sweden passes a law that allows homosexual couples to apply for both the national and the international adoption of children.

An official recycling system with refundable deposits was established in Sweden for bottles in 1884 and aluminium beverage cans in 1982, by law, leading to a recycling rate for beverage containers of 84-99 % depending on type, and average use of a glass bottle is over 20 refills.

The Church of Sweden, by law, is organized in the following manner:

In Sweden the titles " psychologist " and " practiced psychologist " are restricted in law.

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, was first held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1972, and marked the emergence of international environmental law.

It is a dark novel about the lack of freedom for women, and it raised a debate in the parliament called " The Hertha debate ", which contributed to the new law of legal majority for adult unmarried women in Sweden in 1858, and was somewhat of a starting point for the real feminist movement in Sweden.

Later, the new monarchies or dynasties of France ( under the Bonapartes ), Belgium, Denmark ( from 1853 ), Sweden ( from 1810 ), and the Balkan realms of Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia introduced Salic law.

* 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.

In contemporary times, there are also ongoing consultations between the Government of Norway and the Sami Parliament regarding the right of the coastal Sami to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law.

" In Norway, the title " Professor ," which is protected by law, is only used for full professors.

The French High Commissioner in Germany André François-Poncet replied that the admiral seemed ill-informed about history and the law, stating that North Korea had attacked South Korea, and that UN forces in Korea were fighting in response to South Korean appeals for help and under the authority of the UN Security Council, which did not correspond at all to the situation with Norway in 1940.

Norway is not the only country to have a constitution written in a foreign language, but it is certainly the only state to compose new law material in an archaic language form, apart from the Vatican which uses Latin.

The law allows the movement of hemp ( cannabis seeds ) and their trade between the Member States of the European Free Trade Area ( EU + Norway, Switzerland and Iceland ).

Any consumption, possession, buying or selling of cannabis is prohibited by law in Norway.

In Norse times Østfold county was called Borgarsýsla which means " the county ( sýsla ) of Borg " and the law district of southeast Norway was called Borgarþing meaning " the thing / court of Borg ".

With the birth of Infanta Leonor of Spain on 31 October 2005 to the Prince and Princess of Asturias, President Zapatero reaffirmed his government's intention to amend the Spanish constitution by introducing full and equal cognatic primogeniture, also known in French as aînesse intégrale, which is a gender neutral succession law already adopted in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Luxembourg.

Products marketed to Norwegian consumers in Norway are subject to Norwegian law — a right that cannot be waived by a clause in a company's standard customer contract.

" In Norway, the title " Professor ," which is protected by law, is only used for full professors.

In Nordic countries like Norway, Sweden and Finland, all nature areas are considered public space, due to a law, the allemansrätten ( the right to common passage ).

Bondevik's second government made the biotechnology laws of Norway among the strictest in the World, with support from the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party, but in 2004 a case regarding a child with thalassemia brought this law under fire.

In Norway a local Lebensborn office, Abteilung Lebensborn, was established in 1941 with the task of supporting children of German soldiers and their Norwegian mothers, pursuant to German law ( Hitlers Verordnung, July 28, 1942 ).

In 1274, Magnus promulgated the new national law ( Landslov ), a unified code of laws to apply for the Kingdon of Norway, including the Faroe islands and Shetland.

Under Norwegian law, Nerdrum would be forbidden from any painting activity in prison, as prisoners in Norway are not allowed to pursue business activities while incarcerated.

Furthermore, in 1354, King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden and Norway had issued a letter appointing a law officer named Paul Knutsson as leader of an expedition to the colony of Greenland, to investigate reports that the population was turning away from Christian culture.

In Scotland and the Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden as well as the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the freedom to roam may take the form of general public rights which are sometimes codified in law.

In 1990 the Constitution of Norway was altered, changing the succession law to absolute cognatic primogeniture, meaning that the eldest child, regardless of gender, takes precedence in the line of succession.

Also, there will be a law amendment to secure this for all other computer parties in Norway.

" Starting with the introduction in Norway in 1936 of the world ’ s first per se law which made it an offense to drive with more than a specified amount of alcohol in the body, objective chemical tests have gradually supplanted the earlier purely judgmental ones.

In Norway, every university is instructed and required by law to have a Student Union elected by the pupils / students at the school.

* A similar law was enacted in Norway in 1741 ( see Haugean )

Legal efforts to protect nature in Norway date from 1954, when the Nature protection law was passed.