The Napoleonic Code
- The development of the code fundamentally changed the nature of the civil law legal system. It stressed clearly written and accessibly law.
- The laws could be applied only if they had been promulgated and then published officially. No secret laws were authorised.
- It prohibited laws that apply to events that happened before their introduction.
- The codes also prevented judges from refusing justice based on insufficiency of the law, meaning they had to interpret the law.
- It forbid judges from passing general judgments of a legislative value.
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