Codification 1225 to 1900 First Wave of Codification

Canon Law

Secular Law

Pope Innocent III, Compilatio tertia (Petrus Beneventanus) 1210

Pope Honorius III,  Compilatio quinta (Tancredus of Bologna) 1225

King Roger II of Sicily, Constitutiones  1140

Emperor Frederick II,  Liber Augustalis  1231

Pope Gregory IX, Decretales 1234  (Raymond of Peñafort)
Italian City States  Brescia 1200, Bologna, 1245, Florence 1246, Genoa, 1143, Lucca 1224, Milan, 1216, Parma, 1276
 Perugia, 1279, Piacenza, 1135, Pisa 1162, Siena 1250, Vercelli 1241, Verona, 1205, Viterbo 1237
Pope Boniface VIII, Liber sextus  March 3, 1298

(Commission of Jurists)

Pope John XXII,  Clementines

25 October, 1317

Extravagantes of Pope John XXII

August 1319

Extravagantes communes

 

Pope Boniface VIII 1294-1303

Second Wave of Codification

France: In the middle of the 15th century, there was a movement to codify customs.  This was capped by a decree of Charles VII in 1453 --- an official compilation of the customs of the kingdom.
Although the customals were ordered at that time, most were not compiled until the 16th century.  Each province of France then had a legal code.  Customs no longer had to be proven in court.  The customals were often revised with an eye to Roman law.
Pope Pius V established a commission in 1566 called the Correctores Romani to revise all previous collections of canon law including the private collections (Gratian, Extravagantes John XXII and the Exravagantes communes).  Franciscus Pegna and Sixtus Fabri.  Antonius Augustinus (Spanish) was an important scholar who participated in the work.  In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII promulgated the Editio Romana as the official text of canon law. In the sixteenth century, there were 60 general customals and 300 special customals.  The official compilation of the customs was the beginning of the scientific movement.   Lawyers began to extract general principles of French law -- which became known as the Common Customary Law of France.
The Customal of Paris became the most influential.  But it did not cover all private law.  Royal Ordinances became important in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Modern Canon Law

Codex iuris canonici 1917

The French Revolution and Modern Codifications

Code Napoléon  

Pietro Gasparri (1852-1934) was appointed secretary of the Commission of Cardinals for the Code in 1904.

The Codex iuris canonici was published by Benedict XV, 27 May  1917, with the bull  Providentissima mater ecclesia

The organization of the Code was not according to the classical canonical divisions (Iudex, Iudicium, Clerus, Sponsalia, Crimen) but according to the divisions adopted by ancient Roman jurists (Gaius and Justinian) (Personae, Res, Actiones)

1983 Codex iuris canonici Latin

1983 Codex iuris canonici (English)

1983 Codex iuris canonici Canons 1-95 (Latin-English)

A Short Comparison: Case Law v. Code

All attempts of the revolutionary assemblies to draft a code failed.  Bonaparte appoint 4 men in 1800 to prepare a draft of a code.  The final code was put into place in March, 1804.  Had 2281 articles.  The new code did not obviate old law, but only laws contrary to it.  In 1807 it was given name Code Napoléon.  Later known as Code civil.  

Austria:  Codex Theresianus. 1766

Prussia: Allgemeines Landrecht für die preussischen Staaten 1794

Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (1900)   =BGB

Codification in the American Colonies:  Massachusetts