Article 92 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
Article 92 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany forms the entry standard in the Basic Law section, Jurisprudence .
Normalization
The judiciary is entrusted to the judges; it is exercised by the Federal Constitutional Court, the federal courts provided for in this Basic Law and the courts of the federal states.
Explanations
Half-sentence 1 of the provision does not in itself contain a factual statement, but only a legal definition of the judge within the meaning of the Basic Law, as used in the regulation on judicial independence in Article 97 . The legal definition is also related to the separation of powers standardized in Article 20 Paragraph 3 , according to which the judiciary is an independent power vis-à-vis the legislature and the executive .
Clause 2 of the provision contains a specification of Article 30 . According to this, the association's competence for jurisdiction in the federal system lies in principle with the countries that exercise this through regional courts . The federal government only exercises its own jurisdiction through federal courts in the cases provided for in the Basic Law .
