WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the “Napoleonic Code.” The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family and individual rights.

Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1806 and 1810, Napoleon added a Code of Civil Procedure, Commercial Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, and Penal Code to the ground-breaking Civil Code of 1804.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Napoleonic Code was created because the legal system in France before 1800 consisted of various laws derived from Roman, feudal, and royal legal codes. After the French Revolution, Napoleon wanted to modernize France by creating a new legal code that better reflected the revolution’s principles.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 1808 decree was repealed by Act 9 of 1983, but the Revision of Laws Act which was enacted in 1974, made provision, in section 7, for the publication of the Code under the title “Code Civil Mauricien.” In the United States, the legal system is largely based on English common law.

Detailed explanation-5: -Napoleonic Code, French Code Napoléon, French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.