WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Napoleon set out to reform the French legal system in accordance with the ideas of the French Revolution. Before the Napoleonic Code, France did not have a single set of laws. Law consisted mainly of local customs, which had sometimes been officially compiled in “customals” (coutumes).

Detailed explanation-2: -Before the Napoleonic Code, France did not have a single set of laws; law consisted mainly of local customs, which had sometimes been officially compiled in “custumals” (coutumes), notably the Custom of Paris. There were also exemptions, privileges, and special charters granted by the kings or other feudal lords.

Detailed explanation-3: -Enacted on March 21, 1804, the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. The Civil Code (renamed the Code Napoleon in 1807) addressed mainly matters relating to property and families. But these areas of law greatly affected people’s lives.

Detailed explanation-4: -A Civil Code was brought out in 1804, and different codes were adopted such as Civil procedure, Code of criminal Procedure, Penal Code and a Commercial Code. Laws of Napoleon guaranteed civil equality, religious toleration, equality of inheritance and the trial by Jury.

Detailed explanation-5: -During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul, established himself as the head of a more liberal, authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself head of state. The French civil code established under Napoleon I in 1804.