Editing and translating the Code civil in Belgium, 1804-2004
Editing and translating the Code civil in Belgium, 1804-2004
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比利时民法典的编辑和翻译,1804 年至 2004 年
DOI:
10.1163/1571819042872609
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发表时间:
2004
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0.1
通讯作者:
D. Heirbaut
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作者:
D. Heirbaut
Belgium still has the French Code civil in spite of some efforts to replace it with a new codification. Strange as it may sound these have declined with time, there being more enthusiasm for a new, original and Belgian Civil Code in the 19th century than at the beginning of the 21st 1. Thus, as far as private law is concerned, Belgium will remain a'French province' 2 for a long time, though changes to the Code have gradually weakened the influence of French law. The best example of these is to be found in family law where from the end of the 19th century the Napoleonic patriarchal view of the family was challenged and replaced by a family with a more'democratic'organisation 3. Interestingly enough, the new legislation, at times, was inspired by research into legal history4, which showed that many regions of the Southern Netherlands, later to become Belgium, had known a more democratic family structure before the introduction of the French Code civil. The speed of this process of change should not be exaggerated. In fact, most of the major changes only took place in the last decades of the 20th century 5,* For a summary see below, p. 228.** This article was written as a complement to the previous article by A. Wijffels (supra, p. 195-214). It is based on the experiences of the author in directing, together with prof. em. dr. G. Baeteman, former president of the Belgian Conseil d'tat, a cumulative edition of the Code civil in Belgium for the Tijdschrift voor privaatrecht, the leading review of private law in Belgium, containing the original 1804 text and all later changes to it in Belgium, in both French and Dutch. Needless to say this article could not have been written without the discussions with and help received from A. Wijffels, G. Baeteman and the collaborators to the edition: G. van Dievoet, K. Swerts, X. Lesage, S. Brouwers, G. Verschelden, J. Gerlo, F. de Bock, F. Swennen, R. Barbaix, M. Coene, J. Baeck, F. Bruloot, Y. Leleu, F. Stevens, E. Stassijns, K. Marchand, S. Stallaert and ME Storme.