What is this obscure, confused, and ambiguous code, where the French law is continually mixed with the Roman, where a legislator speaks and yet we see a civilian, where we find a complete digest of all cases and points of the civil law? To understand this thoroughly, we must transfer ourselves in imagination to those times.
Zer da kode ilun, nahasi eta anbiguo hori, non etengabe nahasten baita jurisprudentzia frantsesa erromatarrarekin; non legegileak hitz egiten baitu, eta juriskontsultua ageri baita; non jurisprudentzi gorputz osoa baitator kasu guztiez, zuzenbide zibileko puntu guztiez?