Civil Code Collected Commentaries (Volume 7): Usufruct (Chinese-Latin American Comparative Edition)

Author: Mi Jian
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Features: The Complete Civil Code constitutes one of the most important foundations for the development of contemporary world law, and could even be said to be the most important foundation. Presented to the readers is this translation of a complete volume of The Complete Civil Code, accompanied by the original Latin text. It was initially composed of three parts, later expanded to include a fourth part. The first part is Principles of Law, a textbook consisting of four chapters, but its main content is largely derived from previous textbooks, particularly from Institutiones by Gaius, which emerged around 162 AD. The second part, and also the most important one, is Digesta, a legal compilation divided into 50 volumes, containing writings attributed to the so-called classical jurists, primarily their commentaries, collections of legal answers, collections of legal questions, and specialized treatises. The third part of The Complete Civil Code is Codex Justinianus. This is a compilation of decrees issued by Roman emperors since Emperor Hadrian, divided into 12 volumes. However, only important excerpts from the decrees are usually included in the Codex. The scattered content involves canon law, legal sources, and civil servant law, private and procedural law, criminal and administrative law. After the legislative work of the aforementioned third part was completed in 534 AD, further revisions and additions of specific laws were made, known as the Novellae. Although they were not formally compiled, the compilers of The Complete Civil Code later included them as the fourth part of this legislative work.