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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: came into force on the 1st of January, 1900. The Code was accompanied by a statute for its introduction (Einf ihrungsgesetz) ( containing transitory provisions as to the relation of State law to Imperial law, and rules as to the conflict of laws, which latter had been contained in the second draft but were transferred to the E.G. by the Federal Council. 4. Entirely transformed editions of the Commercial Code and the Code of Civil Procedure, supplemented in each case by introductory statutes, and several other Imperial statutes intended to carry out in detail some of the principles laid down in the Code, were also enacted before the coming into force of the Civil Code. Thus a voluminous body of revised or new law came into force on the 1st of January, 1900, by the side of the Civil Code. 2. Component Parts Of German Private Imperial Law 6. The term private law as distinguished from public law is not defined by German statute law. Justinian's definition (L 1, 4) ' publicum ius est quod ad statum rei Romanae spectat, privatum quod ad singulorum utilitatem pertinet', still indicates the line of cleavage; but it should be remembered that there are cases where public bodies exercise private rights as property owners or as employers of labour, and that such rights, though exercised for the public benefit, are regulated by private law. The German Civil Code and the other enactments referred to in this treatise deal with private law only, but there are matters on the border line to which attention will be called in their several proper places. 6. The most important part of German private law is contained in the Civil Code and the Commercial Code, and these Codes supplement each other in such a way that it is impossible to ascertain the law on a question relating to any transact...