In 1800, Napoléon I appointed a commission of four
persons to undertake the task of compiling the Napoleonic Code Assimilated the private law of France - the law governing transactions and relationships between individuals A revised version of the Roman law or Civil Law, which predominated in Europe The Napoleonic Code served as the prototype for subsequent codes during the nineteenth century Napoleon promulgated… • the Code of Civil Procedure (1807) • the Commercial Code (1808) • the Code of Criminal Procedure (1811) • the Penal Code (1811)