J. B. Sirey & Napoléon - Les cinq codes, avec notes et traités - 1819

Fascinating scholarly edition and abundantly annotated of the five great Napoleonic codes, intended for magistrates, lawyers, notaries, law professors, students and administrators called to interpret and apply French legislation -

More than a simple reproduction of the official texts, the work enriches each legal provision with explanatory notes, references to complementary laws, doctrinal observations and references to recent jurisprudence, thus offering a true working instrument allowing the understanding of the spirit, scope and modalities of application of the different legal rules -

The first set is devoted to the Civil Code, which lays out the fundamental principles of private law by defining the status of persons, civil rights, domicile, civil status, marriage, the effects of marital and paternal authority, legitimate and natural filiation, successions, donations, wills, matrimonial regimes, contracts, obligations, property, possession, servitudes, privileges and mortgages -

J. B. Sirey & Napoléon - The five codes, with notes and treatises - 1819 - At the Office of Administration of the General Collection of Laws and Decisions -
800 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, work in its original brown half-binding calf, marbled boards, wear from use, a few minor defects on the cover, boards worn, headbands, corners and joints worn, edges gilt, smooth spine adorned with gold fillets and roulette ornaments, gilt title on a red morocco piece -

Good inner condition, some stains, text in two columns, work bringing together the great French legal codes of the era, enriched with notes detailing legislative modifications and preceded by important texts such as the Constitutional Charter, endpapers in reasonable condition, good copy -

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