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Legal History from a European Perspective · Feb 10, 2022 · 6 min

LH0840 Bouche de la loi

This episode explains how the French Civil Code had the ambition to reduce the role of the judge to a passive force, a "mere mouth of the law", and how this attempt was doomed to fail.

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This episode explains how the French Civil Code had the ambition to reduce the role of the judge to a passive force, a "mere mouth of the law", and how this attempt was doomed to fail. 

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