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Code Napoleon

[kawd na-paw-ley-awn] / kɔd na pɔ leɪˈɔ̃ /
NOUN
Napoleonic code
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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

Equally scornful, Bousgarbi�s' lawyer, Georges Boyer, replied that the Code Napoleon entitles every Frenchman to bring suit in his own city.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon the pious Abb� and the impetuous atheist felt the cold, im partial rigor of the Code Napoleon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spent the morning at the Bibliothèque Nationale, reading up Code Napoleon.

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)




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