The apex court of a system in which Islamic law is the declared source of legislation. Mauritania is not an OHADA member, so its commercial law remains national rather than harmonised.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Court of final appeal
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Seat
- Nouakchott
- Established
- 1961
- Languages
- Arabic, French
Where an appeal goes next
Final on points of law
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