The relation between legislative power and judicial power was one of the prevailing subjects in the domain of civil law in late 19th and early 20th century France. By examining the narratives about legislator in the works of François Gény, Emmanuel Lévy and Georges Riper, this article concludes that their positions regarding legislation in its relation to the judiciary are products of the interactions between the particular authors and their contexts. For Gény, despite the innovative feature of his method of legal interpretation, method of this conservative liberalist is designed to refuse progressive legislations. In the scope of the legal socialism of Lévy, on contrary, legislative power serves as the major means to grant the demands of working class the status of law, which finally rooted in his confidence of democratic regime. Ripert shares neither the commitment to democracy with Lévy, nor that to justice with Gény. He argues that the guideline of interpretation lies on the Christian morality embodied by law, and democracy would finally destroy such morality.