Society of the Netherlands

establishments in the Netherlands, where the sale of cannabis for personal consumption by the public is tolerated by the local authorities

demographics of country

same-sex marriage in the Netherlands

region in the Netherlands with the highest concentration of conservative Calvinist Protestants; stretches from Zeeland, through the West-Betuwe and Veluwe, to the northern parts of the province Overijssel

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sex work in the Netherlands

'''''' (plural: ) is a Dutch word (from , from and ), literally meaning "emerging from another soil". It is the opposite of the word (in English "autochthonous" or "autochthon"; from Greek , from and again ), literally meaning "emerging from this soil".

legal history of euthanasia in the Netherlands

use of coats of arms and insignia in the Netherlands

An '''''' ('legal interpreter' or 'lawspeaker') was, in the Middle Ages, an official legal advisor to the court of law in the Westerlauwers district (i.e. west of the River Lauwers) in western Friesland. Unlike a modern judge, the gave in most cases only an expert opinion on the law itself rather than on the facts of the case. As can be seen from the legal system known as Oudere Schoutenrecht, in the Old Frisian legal system with its formal approach to evidence, there was little room for appreciation of the facts of the case. Nevertheless, in exceptional circumstances, when there was a need fo