Under German law, prosecutors are allowed to appeal, which they did in this case.
But German laws that protect the individual from the state are another important factor, the officials say.
"It is not the job of the court to hold a 12-month seminar on German corporate law."
Under German law, a company that owns more than 30 percent of another company's shares must make an offer.
In an early German law, a similar concept was called bad influence.
As the case stood, the sentence according to German military law was death.
Under German law, we can charge a person with kidnapping, but not a country.
He wrote about 150 articles for the journal, many of which were concerned with German law.
German law has been subject to many influences over the centuries.
He also became a leading authority on modern German law.