Code Napoleon

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Code Napoléon: simplicity and advantages of, as compared with       English criminal law.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

It was doubtless largely as a religious offense that the Code Napoléon omitted to punish it.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock

It grins, with shame be it written, at an Imperial Diet modelled on the German plan and a Code Napoléon à la Japonaise.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard

Brought up in exile, unfamiliar with France, Louis Bonaparte had assumed that the bourgeoisie remembered only that the Empire had curbed the Revolution, established social order, and given France the Code Napoléon.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth

The obligatory civil marriage law introduced by the Revolution in 1792, obtained place in the Code Napoléon in 1804, and was with it introduced in Belgium and the provinces of the Rhine.117 2.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.