HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Christian Thomasius, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, French Revolution
15 Dec 2020
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Requirements: written, enacted by state authority, systematic (institutional, geometric, etc. , exhaustive, exclusive. Aims: centralisation, legal certainty, controlling judiciary, facilitate legal education, facilitate trade (modernise the law) Disadvantages: hinders legal development (von savigny), exegetical school; not fully justified, interpretation: grammatical, historical, teleological. Jean domat (1625 96): les lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel (1689 94), rules derived more geometrico from christian morals, classification of civil law later adopted by. Codification movement: ambition to replace entire mass of existing law by a system of codes, different from justinian"s codification: creation of new law, not only compilation. Influence of natural law: new, ration legal system, consistent, comprehensible, ideally universl and immutable. 4 and 8 d claration des droit de l"homme et du citoyen: drew from work of robert joseph pothier (1699 1772), magistrate from. Orleans, survey of private law from roman law to orleans customary law, comparisons with customary law from other regions of france; on obligations:
