WELD 174AB Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Legal Science, Legal Education, Jus Commune
22 Aug 2020
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One of the programmatic points of the french revolution was the codification of the law. This process was pushed through by napoleon, who appointed a limited 4- member commission to compile a civil code. The code civil, or napoleonic code, was introduced in 1804 and adopted not only in france and its colonies, but also in. On the contrary, the netherlands initially adopted a revised version of the french civil code (1809), then were forced to refer to the original code civil as a result of the annexation by france of the kingdom of. Holland, and finally in 1838 adopted a new code, namely the dutch civil code, as promoted by king william i. it had the purpose of legal certainty and it was a symbol of equality among population. Legal scholars studied the french civil code at the universities. Roman law and ius commune were no longer studied at faculties of law, but only in faculties of history.
