Civil code
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A civil code is a codification of private law relating to property, family, and obligations.
The first edition of the Swiss Civil Code (around 1907). In 1911, it became the first civil code to include commercial law (Swiss Code of Obligations).
Napoleonic Code
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The Napoleonic Code, officially the Civil Code of the French, is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently ame
Civil code
…Wars. One of the first countries to follow up through legal transplants in codification was Serbia, the Serbian Civil Code (1844). Meanwhile, the French Napoleonic Code (Code Civil) was enacted in 1804 after only a few years of preparation, but it was a child of the French Revolution, which is strongly reflected by its…
The Napoleonic Code in the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer
Jacques Louis David The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries Google Art Project