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The history of the desire to codify (and simplify) law and legislation has been as long as the history of nation states. Different contexts have seen different reasons for the desire for codification. Thus, for example, with the French Revolution and the overthrow of l’ancien régime,the laws which gave rise, in part, to the dissatisfaction of the revolutionaries were eliminated and replaced by the ordered system of the Code Napoléon to represent the new post-aristocratic economic order.
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Leith, P., Hoey, A. (1998). From codification to logical dialectic. In: The Computerised Lawyer. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0593-0_11
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