Gustave-Emil Boissonade

French jurist

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author of Japanese Civil Code

  • In Japanese Civil Code

    …work of a French jurist, Gustave-Emil Boissonade, who also had written the criminal and penal codes of 1882. Opponents argued that, if the civil code were to be based upon French law, then Japanese lawyers trained in the French system would have an advantage over those trained in the English.…

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