ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Law French, Germany, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Paragraph 397: law of reason: natural lawyers tried to reconstruct a complete system of natural law a solution for every human problem. Immutable: and if not adaptable without changing basic precepts. Paragraph 398: german and french natural lawyers: many natural lawyers still drew on roman law: natural law found no better expression in human law than in natural law. Paragraph 399: natural law and the universities: progressive universities (halle & gottingen) natural lawyers gained ascendancy, most universities usus modernus pandectarum remained dominant. Paragraph 401: the prussian codification: enlightened absolutist from germany first princes to embark upon general codification, bavaria 1756: code made no claims to exclusivity, roman law was the default. Paragraph 402: the austrian codification: 1753: maria theresa commissioned work on codification. Paragraph 403: codification in the ancien regime: codification would put an end to the many different jurisdictions an legal systems in.
