Code offenses and sorrows

Published by taking again the title of a work of the Marquis de Beccaria , the Code of the offenses and sorrows was set up by the national Convention the 3 Brumaire Year IV (1791) to replace the criminal Ordonnance of 1670.

With 646 articles, it is at the same time a code which treats legal Organsation, Criminal procedure and sorrows.

For the sorrows, it is characterized by the suppression of the afflictive sorrows, except the capital punishment, and the creation of the custodial sentences, of which the most severe form, called Peine of the Embarrassment , is a one fifty years duration reclusion, incompressible, in a cell without window, nor communication of any kind with other external people or recluses.

There will remain in force until its replacement by the criminal Instruction code in 1807 and by the Penal code in 1810.

Plan

I. Police force

Of the Judicial police
Of the Police superintendents
Of the Rural policemen and forest
Of the Justice of the Peace

Mandates to bring
Origin of the continuations

Statements and house searches
Mandates to bring
police officers
captains and lieutenants of gendarmerie

II. Justice

Of the Police courts
Of the Magistrates' courts
Of the criminal courts
Procedure in front of T criminal
Of the examination
Of the judgment and the execution
Of the Cassation of the judgments

III. Sorrows

General provisions
1. Paint simple police force
2. Sorrows correctionneles
3. Defamatory and afflictive Sorrows

Crimes against the Constitution
Crimes tells interior safety

Appendice I. Crimes of the public civils servant
Appendice II. In the Manner of pronouncing when the defendants are declared excusable
Annexe: On the rural police force (Title II of the law of the 28 Septempre 1792,44 articles)

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