Prozessreform und einheitlicher Zivilprozess

The creation of liberal civil proceedings plays a large part in the development of a state on which the citizens also have a decisive influence. Martin Ahrens examines how at first the developments in civil procedure diverged with the decline of the old Reich, but in the end there was a basic tendency towards the unification of the law of civil procedure, which was then put into concrete terms and implemented. The fact that more effort was put into the development of the territorial rights than that of common rights seems to be the 'fate' of the history of procedural law. For the first time, the author focuses on civil procedure in Hannover, giving the first comprehensive evaluation of its legislative documents. The Reich Code of Civil Procedure was the final step of a development in which law-making was the result of a systematic work guided by principles.