Code Napoleon
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Nor is her appetite stimulated by a legal complication possible in Louisiana whose laws are based on the Code Napoleon.
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
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
But it cannot be supposed that the results of the Code Napoleon in France were not fully considered.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
Since the legal status of woman is determined by the Code Napoleon, we need not comment upon it here.
From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Kaethe Schirmacher
