Abstract
It is expected that legal systems evolve gradually following changes of circumstances. Yet) at times, a sudden turn of direction may take place due to compelling factors, the most common of them being the will of a ruler who enjoys absolute power. Occasionally, and surprisingly, that change of direciion may prove to be in the best interest of the people for whom it is intended. Thus, the French Civil Code was mainly the product of Napoleon's will. In Turkey in the 1920s Karnal Ataturk, almost singlthandedly, embarked on a policy of seculsm and reforrn of the legal system with the adoption of a Civil Code which reproduces the Swiss Code, and includes not only the law of contracts and torts but also personal and family law. Another example concerns the first rnilitary ruler of Syria aEcer independence, Husni al-Zaim. He was the power behind the swift repealing of the Majalla and the adopiion, in 1949, of a Civil Code which is a fiil version of Egypt's Civil Code, justly styled the Sanhuri Code, for reasons I am about to develop.
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