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.
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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."
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Soon the pious Abb� and the impetuous atheist felt the cold, im partial rigor of the Code Napoleon.
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Equally scornful, Bousgarbi�s' lawyer, Georges Boyer, replied that the Code Napoleon entitles every Frenchman to bring suit in his own city.
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We may, therefore, regard the article in the Code Napoleon which forbids inquiry into paternity as an unnatural measure, or as a monstrosity of civil law.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
