Study on French Code Civil as a Book

在这四年的时间里，我们分析了200年的《法国民法典》，客观地认为它是一部著作，它的编纂背景，它的书的结构，它在这200年里的变化，它对其他国家的影响，特别是对接受它作为主要编纂模式的日本的影响。我们在国际会议上，特别是2004年3月在巴黎举行的《民法》两百周年纪念活动上，与法国同事讨论了这个问题。关于《民法典》形成的背景，我们回顾了一段有趣的历史：1)通过对“法国习惯法”的描述和系统化，这是自公元15世纪中期以来对地方习俗进行修订而产生的一种“法国习惯法”意识；2)通过模仿其“机构”的结构，尝试编纂与罗马法相对立的统一法。至于法典化后的变迁，虽然家庭法在20世纪60年代后半期进行了彻底的改革，而且最近还将进行改革，但直到200周年，房地产法和债务法在很大程度上仍然保持着原始的规定状态，而奇怪的是，在欧洲日益统一的法律的刺激下，大规模的改革正在进行。我们的研究结果是在我们的许多同事的合作下发表的，1)2004年6月，在日本比较法学会和法国-日本法律科学协会的联合框架下，在一个关于这个主题的小型研讨会上发表的，最后2)出版了一本名为《法国民法典二百周年》的书。

Throughout these four years, we analyzed, on the French Code Civil aged 200 and that we consider objectively as a book, backgrounds of its codification, its structure as a book, vicissitudes in its substance during these two hundred years, influences to other countries, especially to Japan who had accepted it as a major codification model. We discussed on the subject with French colleagues at the occasion of international meetings, in particular at the Bicentenary of the Code civil held at March 2004 in Paris.Regarding backgrounds of formation of the Code civil, we retraced an interesting history of 1) description and systematization of "French law" through a consciousness of "French common custom" arisen in result of redaction of local customs since the middle of 15^<th> c., and 2) tentative of codification of unified law in opposition to the Roman law but by imitating structure of its "Institutes".As for vicissitudes after the codification, while Family law was completely reformed in the second half of 20^<th> c. and is always going to be reformed recently, Estate law and Obligations law remained in contrast largely in original state of provisions until the Bicentenary, when curiously a massive reforms are now going on, stimulated by a growing European harmonized law.Publication of our results is made, with collaboration of many of our colleagues, 1) at a mini-symposium on the subject in the joint frame of Japan Society of Comparative Law and the Societe franco-japonaise de Science juridique at June 2004, and finally 2) by realizing a book, titled "Bicentenary of the French Code Civil".