ABSTRACT
The Code civil is the very prototype of the codified law as it exists in many countries today. Even though, as has been mentioned earlier (cf. supra, p. 12), it was not the first example of a large body being incorporated into a systematic whole, it has come to symbolise the legal approach and policy which has become known as ‘the civil law’. It encompasses such diverse areas as family law, the law of contracts, torts, the law of property and the law of succession.
