well as material novelties in the doctrines of private, penal, and procedural law.160 In Sweden, the discussion of the creation of a Civil Code developed along similar lines as that in Germany. In 1811, during the final years of the NapoleonicWars, the Swedish Diet decided to investigate the need and feasibility of a total revision and possible codification of Swedish law.161 According to the government, the problemwas that though Sweden,in contrast with Germany, on the one hand, was a highly centralized nation, having a relatively coherent and efficient administration, and a widespread sense of unity, on the other, its main body of law was essentially mediaeval in both form and content.The outdated law, the Swedish Statute book of 1734, was the result of a casuistic synthesis and compilation of the old law (the 14th and15th Century Codes of city and country and the ad hoc legislation of the 17th Century).To the Statute book of 1734, the new codification was, according to the committee directives, to add nothing but occasional necessary improvements to the law of the land as it had always been.162 However, the proposal of a Civil Code (1826) was never realized in its entirety, as it became a target of massive political as well as legal critique, and on account of this, as well as systematic acts of obstruction and delay, was never passed.163What is interesting is that the critique from the lawyers framed its arguments almost verbatim from the Historical School and Savigny, and centered on the fact that a codification of Swedish law would p a r t v i i , c h a p t e r 2 604 160 Björne, Den nordiska rättsvetenskapen 2, pp. 229-433. For an account of the influence of German doctrine in Swedish 19th Century private law (company law and law of persons), see, e.g., Peterson, “Fredrik Schrevelius och den moderna personteoriens upptagande i svensk civilrättsdoktrin,” inRättsvetenskap och lagstiftning i Norden: Festskrift tillägnad Erik Anners; “Principen ‘Societas delinquere non potest’ och aktiebolagsstyrelsens straffansvar: en studie i företagaransvarets historia,” in Festskrift till Hans Thornstedt; Äganderätt, avtalsfrihet och fördelning av företagens vinster: vinstandelssystemet i svensk 1800-talsdebatt. 161 Peterson, “En svensk kodifikationsstrid,” pp. 248-250. 162 Ibid., pp. 245-248. 163 See ibid; Sandström,“Den svenska modellen - en juridisk metodlära i tre platta paket,” in Norden, rätten, historia: Festskrift till Lars Björne.
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