ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on researching past events and institutions that may serve as a contribution to contemporary legal science. The articulated need for a legal reform, proclaimed by representatives of the authorities and of the judiciaries, was only the seedling of a broader discussion that preceded actual codification works. The chapter attempts to seek reasons for the emergence of certain phenomena in the law and to explain the mechanism of actions taken by the legislator that brought about a positive change in the functioning of a society. The effectiveness of future legal solutions, to a large extent depends on the understanding of the essence of the ‘public reason’, that is the way in which a given political society formulates its plans, prioritizes objectives, and undertakes actions to bring these objectives to fruition. Societies are governed by two opposite desires: stabilization and adjustment to the evolving political, social, and economic conditions.
