Napoléon - Code civil des Français - 1804

Fascinating edition from the same year as the original of this work which constitutes one of the foundational texts of modern French law and one of the most important legislative achievements of the contemporary era -

The first volume of this edition gathers the provisions aimed at organizing civil relations between citizens in a society arising from the French Revolution, by substituting the diversity of provincial customs and the privileges of the Ancien Régime with a uniform set of rules applicable to the entire territory -

The work asserts the great principles of civil equality before the law, the protection of private property, contractual freedom, and the secularization of many legal institutions -

It primarily deals with the enjoyment and exercise of civil rights, defining the legal capacity of persons, the conditions for acquiring and losing certain rights, as well as the rules relating to civil status, the organization of which is entrusted to public authorities -

Napoléon - Civil Code of the French - 1804 - Volume I - Chaigneau Aîné -

Good binding condition, the work in its original half brown leather, marbled covers, wear from use, a few minor defects on the cover, the edge somewhat damaged, covers discolored, heads and corners worn, speckled edges, plain spine -

Good interior condition, some foxing, endpapers in reasonable condition, good copy -

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