Details

Subject(s)

• Politics and government [Browse]
• Commercial policy [Browse]
• Law and justice [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]
• Bulgaria [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-142968. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-142968

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1953-1960: Module 1
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing documents relating to Bulgarian legal issues. Documents in the file include a report of the ratification of a Romanian-Bulgarian legal cooperation treaty -- and a translation of the accord. The treaty covered civil, family, and penal law. Civil law matters in the treaty include citizens' rights in the two countries -- the language to be used in court cases -- rules of procedure -- and the administration and financing of cases. Issues covered by the family sections of the treaty include adoption -- inheritance -- and the practicalities of marriage, divorce, and the custody of children between Romanian and Bulgarian citizens. Criminal matters covered include extradition -- prisoner transportation -- and the sharing of prosecution reports and of criminal records. Other documents in the file include a United States State Department report on the passing of harsher penalties for gypsies by the Bulgarian National Assembly, and consideration of the gypsy minorities in other Eastern bloc countries.

Notes

• File date: 1959.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1989.

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