Code Napoléon

1. Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 2 neutral 2 citations

   ch. 9 · ch. 10

   The Code Napoleon is identified and its provenance described without explicit endorsement or refutation.

   In some of the French provinces, married women, of a rank below nobility, obtained all the powers of dealing with property which Roman jurisprudence had allowed, and this local law has been largely followed by the Code Napoleon;

2. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 9

   The Code Napoléon is named directly and its stability since 1804 is used as evidence against the popular contrast between French and English legal change.

   In spite of revolutions at Paris, the fundamental provisions of the Code Napoléon have stood to a great extent unaltered since its publication in 1804, and before 1900 the Code had become invested with a sort of legal sanctity which secured it against sudden and sweeping change.

3. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation

   consensv obligationes. (2)

   The Code Napoleon is explicitly named as the source of the French comparative rule.

   By the Code Napoleon delivery is requisite for the transfer of property in movables, but property in immovables, under French law, is transferred as soon as the contract is complete and the title to it is registered.

4. Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 11

   The Code Napoléon is named directly as the legal basis for the registration system described.

   , there has existed, ever since the establishment or introduction of the Code called by his name, a system of publicly registering sales and mortgages of land.

5. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 12 2 passages anchored here

   The French Code is presented as directly extending and inheriting Roman dotal law.

   This simple, but most admirable, contrivance of having, so to speak, model settlements set forth ready made in the law, which may be adopted or not at pleasure, characterises the French Code Napoléon, and it was inherited by the French from the Romans.

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