Legal code compilation - Houtenhensan

Japanese: 法典編纂 - ほうてんへんさん

It refers to the systematic and organized creation of written law by a state, and may be carried out for the purpose of organizing and unifying individual laws and customs in response to social changes, but large-scale codification based on new legal principles is carried out especially after political upheaval such as revolutions. The Napoleonic Code from the early 19th century is historically famous as the forerunner of civil law codes, and had a major influence on the codification of laws in continental Europe as well as in Germany and Japan.
[Europe]
If we define codification as comprehensive, systematic legislation containing abstract legal principles and propositions, then the first wave of such codifications arrived in Europe in the 18th century.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

国家による体系的･組織的な成文法規の作成をいい，社会の変動に応じて個々の法律や慣習などを整理統一する目的で行われる場合もあるが，とくに革命などの政治的大変動ののちには新しい法原理に基づく大規模な法典編纂が行われる。19世紀初頭の〈ナポレオン法典〉は，市民法典の先駆として歴史的に有名であり，ヨーロッパ大陸諸国をはじめドイツや日本の法典編纂にも大きな影響を与えた。
［ヨーロッパ］
　抽象的法原理，法命題を含む包括的体系的な立法をもって法典編纂の定義とすれば，かかる法典編纂の第一波はヨーロッパでは18世紀に到来した。

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