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civil code

noun as in Napoleonic code

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The civil code of Prussia ordains that a child born 302 days after the death of the husband shall be considered legitimate.

Our civil code is not the Koran; it is not wrong to examine it.

He soon resolved to introduce into ecclesiastical polity the rigour, exactitude, and severity of the civil code.

Until 1883 divorce was not legal, but since that year of emancipation the Civil Code permits it for several reasons.

The civil code is not more binding upon us than is the code of civility.

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