From that
time the two codes, the civil and canon laws, were deemed the
principal repositories of legal knowledge, and the study of each
was considered necessary to throw light on the other.
Justinian's example in the codification of laws was followed by
almost every European nation after the eighteenth century; the Code
Napoleon (1803-04), regulating all that pertains "to the civil
rights of citizens and of property," being the most brilliant
parallel to the Justinian Code. The reader familiar with the life
of Napoleon will recall that all of his historians quote his
frequent allusion to the Code Napoleon as the one great work which
would be a living monument of his career, when the glory of all his
other achievements would be dimmed by time or forgotten.
Gibbon's examination of the Justinian Code is justly regarded as
one of the most important features of the historian's great work,
and in several of the leading universities of Europe has long been
used as a text-work on civil law.
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