Napoléon - Code civil des Français & Code de Procédure Civile - 1806

Fascinating original edition of this work, which is one of the first official prints of the Code civil des Français, a major legislative work initiated by Napoléon to unify and rationalize the law within the Empire.

The text, developed by the commissions of jurists (Portalis, Tronchet, Bigot de Préameneu, Maleville) and sanctioned by imperial authority, is organized into three books: Book I on persons, which sets the rules regarding civil status, marriage, filiation, and legal capacity; Book II on property and its various modifications, which codifies the classification of goods, modes of acquisition, and servitudes; and Book III on the different ways of acquiring ownership, which orders contracts, obligations, successions, and patrimonial regimes.

She embodies the Napoleonic will to give law a stable and universal form, while reflecting the rationalist and centralist spirit of the early 19th century.

This legal monument, which would become the model for many European and non-European civil codes, is presented in careful typography and an austere layout, emphasizing the gravity and permanence of the law.

Napoleon - Civil Code of the French & Code of Civil Procedure - 1806 - H. Nicolle & Garnery
481 plus 302 pages

Good condition of the binding, book in its original full genuine leather from the period, signs of wear, cracked hinges but binding intact, missing headcaps, rounded corners, smooth decorated spine, gold lettering.

Good interior condition, scattered foxing, superb vignette on the title page, marbled endpapers.

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