Codice civile e penale Info
- The Italian civil and penal codes, like those of the other countries in continental Europe, took as their model the French Napoleonic Code (civil code) of 1804 and subsequent codes enacted by Napoleon. These went beyond the common rights which had emerged in medieval times from Roman law and reworked them according to the enlightened principles of the French Revolution. In the newly unified Italian state, born in 1861, the codes of the various former states were brought together in 1865 to make up the civil code, the code of civil procedure and the code of penal procedure (on the French model) and in 1889 for the penal code. The new codes of the 20th century followed this trend, with some modifications.