FRENCH REVOLUTION legal reforms
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- Legal reforms
- 16th August 1790, Constituent Assembly abolished the ancien regime
- Different systems of law in the north and the south
- Different types of law court, the Parlements, Seigneurial and ecclesiastical courts
- Letters de cachet
- Torture and mutilation were abolished
- Penal code modified to be more humane
- The New System
- Each Canton- a JP who would deal with cases previously handled by seigneurial
- JPs main task was to persuade different parties to come to an agreement, also judge minor civil cases: EG trespass
- Serious cases EG property disputes, dealt in a district court
- Criminal court located in each department, trials held in public before a jury
- Head of judicial system: Court of Appeal, judges elected by department assemblies
- All judges elected by active citizens, only those who had been lawyers for five years eligible
- March 1792 introduction of the guillotine approved by the Legislature Assembly
- The New System
- Penal code modified to be more humane
- The New System
- Each Canton- a JP who would deal with cases previously handled by seigneurial
- JPs main task was to persuade different parties to come to an agreement, also judge minor civil cases: EG trespass
- Serious cases EG property disputes, dealt in a district court
- Criminal court located in each department, trials held in public before a jury
- Head of judicial system: Court of Appeal, judges elected by department assemblies
- All judges elected by active citizens, only those who had been lawyers for five years eligible
- How revolutionary were the legal reforms?
- Brought many economic freedoms
- Economic justice
- Many reforms that were introduced remain similar today
- Reform of revolution
- How successful were the reforms?
- Many of them are still in place which shows success
- Unsuccessful as many uprisings took place EG the Great Fear
- Could have completely changed the tax system and it did partially
- Fewer capital offences due to the abolishment of torture, branding and hanging
- Justice was made free and equal- popular
- Justice was made free and equal- popular
- 16th August 1790, Constituent Assembly abolished the ancien regime
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