1. Basic principles and development
Codes of civil procedure are law codes (Law [statute]) that treat civil procedure comprehensively and normally with the preemptive force of a codification. They are the result of the differentiation of the legal order into distinct codes (see also civil codes) and presume two things: on the one hand, the separation of civil and criminal proceedings and, on the other hand, the separation of civil procedure as procedural law from the basis of its…