التأطير القانوني لمسائل الأحوال الشخصية في الجزائر إبان العهد الاستعماري

Abstract EN

The personal status issues of the Algerian people are among the areas that the colonial authorities have invaded forcefully invaded, with the aim of sowing discrimination and undermining the cultural identity of the community to contain and control it, though the colonizer presented himself at first as a protector of religions - especially Islam - in compliance with what he pledged to himself under the 1830 A.

D.

convention.

However, he soon began his intervention in a gradual manner using legislative means in an attempt to codify family rulings comprehensively more than once.

After his efforts failed to do so, he resorted to organizing them in separate texts, and also released the hand of the judiciary, especially the Appeals Chamber for legal issues that played an important role in filling the Legislative void through diligence.

It was a support for the legislator in making the legal base through judicial precedents in issues that the latter did not address with regulation, relying on the principle of public order and the idea of improving the conditions and status of women by excluding or amending jurisprudence and customary provisions.