Napoleonic code

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France, meanwhile, bases its law on the Napoleonic code, which offers suspects much more privacy, rarely involves a jury and puts an investigating magistrate in charge of collecting evidence for both the defense and prosecution.

From Reuters • May 31, 2011

Adams was jailed for more than two months without being formally charged, an archaic holdover from the harsh Napoleonic code.

From Time Magazine Archive

The civil law of the kingdom of Poland, a part of Russia, has been, since 1809, the Napoleonic code; the other Polish provinces of Russia are subject to Russian law.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Her grandfather–Buh’the says–was right considerable of a jurist, used scissors and paste, and helped make a scrap-book called the Napoleonic code, and Nap the First changed him into a picayunish duke.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)