The Napoleonic Code is the earliest civil code in capitalist countries. It broke the feudal legislative principle, became the legislative norm of European and American bourgeoisie, and promoted the development of capitalism.

The Significance of the Napoleonic Code The Napoleonic Code consolidated the achievements of the French Revolution. Its main contents and thoughts sum up all the laws and regulations of the Great Revolution as a whole, and legally recognize the social order completely changed by the Great Revolution. It replaced feudal personal attachment and hierarchy with capitalist absolute private property ownership.

Napoleon's Code was enforced in other European countries through Napoleon's iron hoof. Code and revolutionary spirit have impacted the feudal system of these countries and shaken their feudal rule. In addition, it is a systematic, complete and standardized written civil code, which has had a great influence on the legislation of other capitalist countries and played a role in legislative norms.

The Napoleonic Code has clear principles, reasonable arrangement, rigorous logic and concise language. It is a complete legal system of capitalist society and a milestone in the history of world legal system. Its promulgation initiated the compilation of modern civil code.

The basic principles of Napoleonic Code are: freedom and equality, ownership and contract. The Napoleonic Code is the first civil answer code of bourgeois countries in human history, with clear principles, reasonable arrangement, rigorous logic and concise professional language, which is a milestone in the world legal history.

Introduction to the Napoleonic Code The Napoleonic Code consists of a preface and three parts. There are only six prefaces, mainly about the general provisions on the effective time and application of the code. In fact, it covers seven parts: inheritance, living gift and will, general provisions of debts, rules of specific contracts, marital property system, lien and mortgage, and limitation of action.