[Code], COCCEJI (Samuel von) and FORMEY (Johann, Heinrich, Samuel)
    FREDERIC CODE; OR BODY OF LAW, FOR THE STATES OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA: founded on Reason, and on the Constitutions of the Country; in which the King has arranged Roman law in a natural order, eliminated foreign laws, abolished the subtleties of Roman law, and fully clarified the doubts and difficulties that the same law and its commentators had introduced into procedure, thus establishing a certain and universal law, translated from the German by A.A. de Campagne, Privy Councillor to the King, WITH AN ABRIDGED EXPOSITION OF THE KING'S PLAN FOR THE REFORM OF JUSTICE, by M. FORMEY
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    1751-1755
    2 vols. in 3 octavo volumes, bound in mottled blond calf, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, gilt titles on brown paper, red edges, gilt tooling on the edges, red and black titles, tailpieces and vignettes (gilt faded, slight abrasions to the spines, small loss to the lower headcap of vol. 1, foxing mainly on the endpapers and title pages). The foreword states, “The errors in the HALLE edition have been exactly corrected in this one, and an Index of Books and Titles has been added.” The text begins with the title “Nouveau corps de droit” (New Body of Law), manuscript bookplate of Pierre Villard, (38)-XXV-(1)-412 (4) / XL-384 / 384-780 p.
    Verlinden (in his work on the concept of a code...) emphasizes the fundamental importance of the work of Cocceji, Chancellor to Frederick II, on the idea of ​​codification in the 18th century. Following French attempts (the Code of Henry III, the Code of Louis XIII), the idea of ​​a code that completely abolishes existing legislation in a given area and replaces it with new legislation based on the principle of rationality appears here for the first time. In this regard, the preface, written by Cocceji himself, is noteworthy and can be considered a manifesto of the idea of ​​codification and the legal analysis that underpinned it. It also testifies to the reaction against the doctrine that the establishment of a code represents, since the author of the preface emphasizes that its purpose is not only to unify the law of different provinces but also to combat the "crowd of commentators" who have distorted Roman law and whose opinions prevailed over its letter. The preface also reveals a striking anticipation of Portalis's discourse on the judge's role in relation to the code. The code opens with a discourse "For the Reform of Justice," which serves as a justification for the attempt to rationalize the procedure. BNF ref. FRBNF30252776; Dupin, ref. 3346 (for another edition).

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