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:
- persons
- things
- actions.
Similarly, the Napoleonic Code divided law into law of:
- persons
- property
- acquisition of property
- civil procedure (removed into a separate code in 1806).
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