Six Codes

Six Codes refers to the six main legal codes that make up the core body of law in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan: the constitution, the civil code, the code of civil procedure, the penal code, the code of criminal procedure, and the commercial code (or administrative law, in Taiwan's case). The term originated in Japan's early Meiji period, when Japanese jurists adapted the French Napoleonic legal system and added their own constitution to Napoleon's five codes to make six; the framework later spread to Korea and China through legal modernization and colonial influence. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/