Napoleonic code
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The Netherlands is one of the countries whose justice systems were shaped by the Napoleonic Code.
From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2014
She had to go through two weddings, separately required by the Napoleonic Code of Monaco and the laws of the Roman Catholic Church….
From Time • Apr. 18, 2013
Napoleon thought that his greatest work was his comprehensive system of laws, known as the Napoleonic Code.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
You aren’t allowed to do this in France or the other nations that took on the Napoleonic Code.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 14, 2011
The laws of Louisiana for the most part are a survival of the Napoleonic Code: Art.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted
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