Code Louis
The Code Louis was a French legal code and consisted of two complementary parts, from 1667 and 1670. It was commissioned by King Louis XIV and worked out from 1661 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert . The Code Louis' task was to bring order into the laws and jurisdiction of the kingdom, taking into account southern French Roman law and northern French customary law .
Components:
- 1667 ( ordonnance sur la reformation de la justice civile ), concerning civil law, consisting of thirty-five articles, which establish the hierarchy of the various tribunals , regulate the administrative order of the magistrates and reform the administration of justice .
- 1670 ( ordonnance sur la reformation de la justice criminelle ), concerning criminal law, regulates e.g. B. the questions of galley punishments and executions .
The Louis Code, named after him in honor of the king, successfully helped to combat arbitrariness in the French administration and judiciary. It later served as the basis for the Civil Code .