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
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
Two great nations, the French and the Italian, by the "Code Napoleon" and the "Codice Penale" of 1889, remove these phenomena from the category of crime into that of immorality at worst.
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
He did not touch the letters upon his table, but he went straight to his bureau, and unlocking a drawer, took from it a copy of the Code Napoleon.
From Running Water by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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