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Code Napoleon

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

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

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

Nor is her appetite stimulated by a legal complication possible in Louisiana whose laws are based on the Code Napoleon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unhappily they had reason to fear an enforced delay of several months, as, the Code Napoleon having been adopted in Roumania, Paul was compelled to obtain his mother's consent.

From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Pont-Jest, Ren? de




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