Ebook: Codification as a Socio-historical Phenomenon

Introduction; HISTORICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE IDEA OF CODIFICATION Early forms (Antiquity), Early forms (the Middle Ages), Trends in the Enlightened Absolutism, Classical type (Continental codes in the service of bourgeois transformation), Attempts (Common Law), Striving for (Afro–Asian countries), New ambitions (Socialist law); TYPES & DEVELOPMENT OF CODIFICATION Possibility of a general concept of codification, Rationalization as the motive force of codification, as well as Types of codification in codification development, Codification in present-day development (Concluding remarks); w/ Index, as well as Indexes of normative materials & of names; in Appendix: ‘Codification’ in The Philosophy of Law An Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher Berry Gray (Garland Publishing 1999) and ‘Codification at the Threshold of the Third Millennium’ Acta Juridica Hungarica (2006) w/Index, as well as Indexes of normative materials & of names