LEGAL TECHNIQUE DURING LEGISLATION CODIFICATION PROCESS IN WESTERN EUROPE IN THE XVIII – EARLY XIX CENTURIES

Abstract

The article analyzes key ideas and methods of legal technique in West
European legal philosophy and doctrine in XVIII – early XIX centuries.
Requirements for statutes and regulations formed by F. Voltaire, C. Volf,
R. Descartes, D. Diderot, C. Montesquieu and other representatives of Enlightenment
are analyzed in the context of national law codification in
Austria, Prussia and France. The requirement of simplicity, clarity and
systematic presentation of content of legal acts proclaimed by Catherine`s
Decree is based on ideas and principles of European rationalism and natural
law.