Study on French Code Civil as a Book

在这四年的时间里，我们分析了我们客观地认为是一本书的《法国民法典》200年的编纂背景、作为一本书的结构、这两百年来其实质的变迁，以及对其他国家，特别是接受它为主要编纂模式的日本的影响。在国际会议上，特别是在2004年3月在巴黎举行的《民法法典》二百周年纪念活动上，我们与法国同事讨论了这一问题。关于《民法法典》形成的背景，我们追溯了一段有趣的历史：1)通过自公元前15世纪中期以来由于地方习俗的节录而产生的一种意识，对《法国法》进行描述和体系化；2)尝试编纂统一法律，与罗马法背道而驰，但通过模仿其“制度”的结构。至于编纂之后的变迁，虽然家庭法在20世纪下半叶进行了彻底的改革，并且总是会在最近进行改革，但财产法和债权法在很大程度上保持着原始的条款状态，直到二百年，奇怪的是，在不断增长的欧洲协调法的刺激下，现在正在进行大规模的改革。我们的成果是在我们许多同事的合作下公布的，1)在2004年6月日本比较法学会和法国科学法学会联合举办的关于这一主题的小型研讨会上，以及最后通过实现了一本名为《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".