MauritiusIntellectual Property
Business in Mauritius may be conducted in an incorporated or unincorporated form.
By reason of its history of colonization first by the French and then by the English, Mauritius has a hybrid legal regime which mixes civil law and common law. Substantive law, such as the property, contract, family, landlord and tenant, sale of goods and insurance law, is largely set out in the Civil Code which is based on the Code Napoleon. Company law is, however, based on the common law model.
The judicial system is adversarial, although the judiciary are recruited as in the French system. The legal profession is organised along English lines with its division between barristers and solicitors, known as attorneys. Cases are pleaded in English and court procedure is largely English-based. The law of evidence is, however, largely French-based.
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