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Code Napoleon

[kawd na-paw-ley-awn] / kɔd na pɔ leɪˈɔ̃ /
NOUN
Napoleonic code
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Soon the pious Abb� and the impetuous atheist felt the cold, im partial rigor of 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

Inside, three costumed judges bravely subdued their grins, prepared to try the defamation of Napoleon under 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

X. Italy, by the Penal Code of 1889, adopted the principles of the Code Napoleon on this point.

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington




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