Codex Iuris Bavarici Iudiciarii

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The Codex Iuris Bavarici Iudiciarii (often abbreviated as CIBI) was a code of civil procedure for the Electorate of Bavaria introduced in 1753 as part of a comprehensive legal reform . By streamlining the litigation system, disputes under common law could be standardized in the area of ​​application.

A short time later, Bavaria also received a civil code with the Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis in 1756 . In terms of content, it is common law, systematically it follows Roman institutional law . As early as 1751 a penal code had been published with the Codex Iuris Bavarici Criminalis .

Elector Maximilian III commissioned the composition of the three works . Joseph the Privy Council Vice Chancellor and Conference Minister Wiguläus von Kreittmayr , who also wrote comprehensive comments on them for legal practice. In its civil (procedural) legal parts, the Codex is already a work of the Enlightenment that does not explicitly refer to natural law , but suggests features of it in the secularized variant of the law of reason; it is largely based on the legal practice that had been common in Bavaria until then, but tries to standardize it and to eliminate contradictions.

The Codex was replaced by the Bavarian Code of Civil Procedure in 1869.

Web links

  • Wiguläus von Kreittmayr : Codex iuris bavarici iudiciarii . Munich 1803, ( digitized version ) from the BSB.
  • Wiguläus von Kreittmayr: Codex iuris bavarici iudiciarii . Notes on the Codex juris Bavarici judiciarii, Munich, digital version of the edition of 1756 , 1813 , 1844, Volume I II , of the BSB.
  • Johann Adam von Seuffert : Commentary on the Bavarian court system: (codex iuris bavarici iudiciarii de anno 1753), Volumes 1 , 2 , 3 4/1 , 4/2 .