Napoleonic Commerciall Code Leather Binding 1807 Code de Commerce

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Code de Commerce
by
Michel Louis Étienne Regnaud, comte de Saint-Jean-d'Angely; Conseil d'État

 

Leather. 16mo. Unknown publisher, Paris, France. 1807. cix, 215 pgs.

Bound in red leather with marble paper covered boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Missing the title page and the frontispiece. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

It took the resounding bankruptcies of 1806 so that the Emperor, moved by the scandal caused by these fraudulent affairs, ordered the Council of State to get down to work immediately for the drafting of a reform of the commercial legislation and the presentation of a Commercial Code. The discussion in the Council of State lasted for nearly 9 months and 68 sessions. The first book relating to trade in general was first examined on the presentation of REGNAUD, president of the interior section. But attention was focused primarily on the bankruptcy law which "only mattered to NAPOLEON" according to LOCRE. The interest of the Council of State in the title relating to the bill of exchange and to Book II on maritime trade is affected by the stagnation of foreign trade and navigation and will not lead to major discussions. Book IV, relating to commercial jurisdiction refers to the Code of Civil Procedure, but it is silent on the jurisdiction of prudent men. Removed from Paris by the campaigns of Prussia and Poland, NAPOLEON could not participate in these first discussions. As soon as he returned to Saint-Cloud in July 1807, he immediately summoned the Council of State to reopen the debate on bankruptcies under his presidency, the device not appearing to him sufficiently repressive. The interventions of CAMBACERES, CRETET and TREILHARD somewhat temper its rigor, and the text of the Council, "severe law" will say of SEGUR, is maintained as it is. During the three other meetings which he chaired in July and August 1807, NAPOLEON also returned to the promissory note, with the removal of the provision subjecting any signatory of a promissory note to constraint by body. Thus covered with the imperial Imprimatur and after taking into account the observations formulated by the Tribunate, the various books of the Commercial Code are presented to the Legislative Body for adoption. During this formal stage, a pretext for beautiful pieces of eloquence, were illustrated in particular: REGNAUD DE SAINT-JEAN-D ANGELY, BEGOUEN, CORVETTO, de SEGUR and MARET. The final adoption, then the separate promulgation of each of the laws making up the Commercial Code took place throughout the month of September 1807. Nevertheless, the implementation of the Commercial Code in its entirety was set for January 1, 1808, under the terms of the law of September 15, 1807 repealing, as of the same day, all the old laws affecting commercial matters on which the new Commercial Code ruled in its 648 articles.