Corps de droit ottoman
Introduction


***Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman*** ("Ottoman Body of Law: Compendium the Most Important Codes, Laws, Regulations, and Acts of Domestic Law, and Studies of Customary Law, of the Ottoman Empire") is a 1905–1906 seven\-volume French\-language collection of [Ottoman Empire](/wiki/Ottoman_Empire "Ottoman Empire") law edited by George Young (1872–1952\), published by [Clarendon Press](/wiki/Clarendon_Press "Clarendon Press") in the [United Kingdom](/wiki/United_Kingdom "United Kingdom").

D. G. Hogarth of *[The English Historical Review](/wiki/The_English_Historical_Review "The English Historical Review")* wrote that the author's main concern was [constituent legislation](/wiki/Constituent_legislation "Constituent legislation") and that the work "is not intended to be a complete publication of either the civil or the criminal code in use."Hogarth, p. 187\.

Part I, Volumes I–III, were published in 1905, while Part II, Volumes IV–VI, were published in 1906\.


How did the customary law of the Ottoman Empire compare to its written code?