REIGNÉ, Philippe

Remarques sur la numérotation des article dan la codification - Paris : IIAP, avril/juin 1997

In former times figures added a symbolic, magical dimension to written law. Nowadays, concern over rationalisation dictates the way in which texts are numbered. While this issue is not confined simply to the drafting of codes, it is nevertheless, most developed in the process of codification. As far as its form is concerned, numbering is particularly influenced by history and by modes taken from abroad. Its primary objective remains to facilitate the reading of the codified articles, without losing sight of the interest of users, without codification would lose all sense