# The 1667 Ordonnance civile (Saint-Germain) unifies civil procedure as dated royal law reform, complex with Colbert

Date: 1667

## The fact

In 1667 the Ordonnance civile of Saint-Germain unified civil procedure as royal law. The instrument is that dated ordinance, complex with Colbert, not a later Napoleonic code as his act. Louis XIV of France's documented role is: He issued the ordinance. Colbert's legal councils drafted. Parlements registered. He did not personally hear every case.

## Context

Colbert's councils drafted. Sharing parlements' registration is required. Lettres de cachet remain the extra-judicial cost row. The setting of The 1667 Ordonnance civile (Saint-Germain) unifies civil procedure as dated royal law reform, complex with Colbert is the public file around 1667-04-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Louis XIV, legal ordinances neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Cambridge neighbourhood on the 1667 Ordonnance civile at https://www.cambridge.org/core/ (Cambridge University Press). Official carrier: Britannica — Louis XIV, legal ordinances neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Cambridge neighbourhood on the 1667 Ordonnance civile (https://www.cambridge.org/core/; Cambridge University Press).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Louis XIV, legal ordinances neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from The 1667 Ordonnance civile (Saint-Germain) unifies civil procedure as dated royal law reform, complex with Colbert on 1667-04-01. Unifying civil procedure is a justice path stored as improving access-to-form, twin of lettres de cachet as extra-judicial cost. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The 1667 Ordonnance civile (Saint-Germain) unifies civil procedure as dated royal law reform, complex with Colbert under 1667-04-01 for Louis XIV of France. Established: a sourced public record of The 1667 Ordonnance civile (Saint-Germain) unifies civil procedure as dated royal law reform, complex with Colbert under 1667-04-01.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge with the 1670 criminal ordinance as a second civil code. Mixed effects of The 1667 Ordonnance civile (Saint-Germain) unifies civil procedure as dated royal law reform, complex with Colbert are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of The 1667 Ordonnance civile (Saint-Germain) unifies civil procedure as dated royal law reform, complex with Colbert. Naming Louis XIV of France does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1667-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Louis XIV of France: https://factrail.ai/people/louis-xiv-of-france

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/l14-ordonnance-civile