# The Civil Code of 1804 is promulgated as a dated private-law book

Date: 1804

## The fact

On 21 March 1804 the Civil Code was promulgated. Portalis and the commission drafted. It is one code, not a unique modern constitution. Napoleon's documented role is: He drove a code commission to finish. Portalis and others drafted; patriarchal family law is a neighbouring cost.

## Context

Cambacérès shares the legal file. Sharing drafting with the commission is required. The setting of The Civil Code of 1804 is promulgated as a dated private-law book is the public file around 1804-03-21. 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.

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

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Napoleonic Code at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Napoleonic-Code (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Britannica — Napoleon, Civil Code at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Britannica — Napoleonic Code (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Napoleonic-Code; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Napoleon, Civil Code (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Napoleonic Code (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Napoleonic-Code; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from The Civil Code of 1804 is promulgated as a dated private-law book on 1804-03-21. Gender-hierarchy clauses stay on a split row. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Shared responsibility is part of The Civil Code of 1804 is promulgated as a dated private-law book. Naming Napoleon does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1804-03-21 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.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Civil Code of 1804 is promulgated as a dated private-law book under 1804-03-21 for Napoleon. Established: a sourced public record of The Civil Code of 1804 is promulgated as a dated private-law book under 1804-03-21.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not split every title. Family-power clauses are a neighbouring worsening Fact. Mixed effects of The Civil Code of 1804 is promulgated as a dated private-law book are separate paths.

## People

- Napoleon: https://factrail.ai/people/napoleon

## Drivers

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

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Napoleonic-Code
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nap-code-1804