The Enciene Regime

The enciene regime ran on its own map, and seemed designed to make sure that no two subjects of the king lived under exactly the same set of laws. Broadly speaking, france was operating under two different legal frameworks. Down in the south, they lived under a code system that could be traced back to the romans while up in the north, the common law system prevailed. But what makes it really crazy is that the individual jurisdictions of the thousands of petty little courts were defined haphazardly. A member of the paris parliament commented in the 17 sixties: "Do we not see every day people obliged to go to law over two, three years?"