Napoleonic Code - History

History

The categories of the Napoleonic Code were not drawn from earlier French laws, but instead from Justinian's sixth-century codification of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis and, within it, the Institutes. The Institutes divide law into the law of:

  1. persons
  2. things
  3. actions.

Similarly, the Napoleonic Code divided law into law of:

  1. persons
  2. property
  3. acquisition of property
  4. civil procedure (removed into a separate code in 1806).

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