Tomii Masaaki

Tomii Masaakira

Tomii Masaaki , also Tomii Masaakira ( Japanese 富 井 政 章 ; * October 16, 1858 in Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture ; † September 14, 1935 ), also known as Tomii Masaakira, was a Japanese lawyer of the Meiji era , co-founder of the Hōsei- University and co-author of the Japanese Civil Code.

Life

Tomii Masaaki was born in Kyoto in 1858 as the son of the samurai Tomii Masatsune. After attending the foreign language school in Tokyo , Tomii went to France in 1877 and studied at the law faculty in Lyon . After receiving his doctorate in 1883 on French sales law, he returned to Japan and in 1885 became a law professor at Tokyo University .

In 1893 Tomii Masaaki was appointed to the newly formed civil law commission in the course of the codification dispute between the law school of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, which was shaped by French law , and the University of Tokyo, which was shaped by English law , on the Boissonadian draft of the Japanese Civil Code. Their draft for a Japanese civil code came into force in 1896 (general part, property and obligation law) and 1898 (family and inheritance law).

literature

• Michael Stolleis: Jurists: a biographical lexicon: from antiquity to the 20th century . CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-45957-3 .

Web links

• Tomii, Masaaki on ndl.go.jp (English)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Tomii is the family name, Masaaki the first name.