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Python trademark at risk in Europe

Posted Mar 1, 2013 7:56 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
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Civil law was, I believe, invented by Napoleon.

Civil law actually goes back to the Romans, plus medieval influences. Napoleon promulgated a set of laws called the Code Civil, which is generally seen as an embodiment of the ideas of civil law, but not as the origin of these ideas.

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Python trademark at risk in Europe

Posted Mar 1, 2013 13:24 UTC (Fri) by Jonno (guest, #49613) [Link] (1 responses)

>Civil law actually goes back to the Romans
While what the Romans had is what eventually evolved into the modern civil law system, they lacked the primary feature of modern civil law: A single book (or otherwise well-defined collection of documents that can be re-published as a single book) that is "the law".

To my knowledge the first one of those was the Code Civil by Napoleon, marking it the first civil law system, as the term is understood today.

Python trademark at risk in Europe

Posted Mar 1, 2013 16:32 UTC (Fri) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

Didn't Byzantium have several well-defined collections of "the law"? Creating such collections was a bit of a hobby for some emperors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_law
(Or "what have the Nova Romans ever done for us?")