Code Napoleon
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The Code Napoleon put Haro out of business in Normandy proper, but in Channel Islands law the Clameur de Haro still had the force of law and "Haro being called, the enterprise must cease."
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside, three costumed judges bravely subdued their grins, prepared to try the defamation of Napoleon under the Code Napoleon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor is her appetite stimulated by a legal complication possible in Louisiana whose laws are based on the Code Napoleon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The system of jurisprudence in Quebec is an admixture of the Code Napoleon, the coutume de Paris, and the common law of England.
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe
These laws are the most radical reforms to which the Code Napoleon has ever been subjected,—reforms which the French did not venture to enact.
From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Schirmacher, Kaethe
