Download or read book Politics of Codification written by Brian J. Young and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of a pivotal event in the evolution of Quebec's legal culture, Brian Young shows that codification of the Civil law was an intensely political act as well as a legal phenomenon.