Sentence examples for codification of civil law from inspiring English sources
He promoted many useful measures, including the abolition of seigneurial tenure (estates held by semi-feudal tenure) in Canada East and the codification of civil law.
Ruling with an iron hand, he authorized continuation of the codification of civil law that had begun under Louis XIV and the institution of fiscal reforms that enabled French finances to recover from the costly wars of Louis XIV.
Throughout the Middle Ages the Code of Justinian, or Corpus Juris Civilis ("Body of Civil Law"), the four-volume codification of Roman law compiled under the patronage of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (483 565), was regarded as the quintessence of human law, applicable in virtually every situation.
The first step in its process of implementing complete civil codification was the adoption of the General rules of civil law in March 2017.
This legal renaissance, in turn, encouraged the recording and transmittal of civil law and led the Four Doctors to revive the codification and glosses of Justinian to create a law school for teaching civil law.
The codification of the civil law, first undertaken in 1790, was at last completed under the Consulate.
The corporate form itself developed in the early Middle Ages with the growth and codification of civil and canon law.
In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian's massive Codification, the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system of Antiquity, which remains at the heart of the civil law tradition of Europe, Latin America, and some countries of Asia and Africa.
5Codes and Codification chapter abstractThe codification of law has been perceived as a typical character of the legal systems of the civil law tradition.
Please refer to Item 126 of "The Civil Law" (2012).
Basil's military expenses and payments to his Turkish overlords taxed his subjects; but his rule also brought important cultural improvements through the creation of Greek monastic schools, the first codification of Moldavian civil and criminal law (1646), and the establishment of the first printing press in the country at Iaşi.
