Code Napoléon

American  

[kawd na-paw-ley-awn] / kɔd na pɔ leɪˈɔ̃ /

noun

1. the civil code of France, enacted in 1804 and officially designated in 1807.

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Code Napoléon British  

/ kɔd napɔleɔ̃ /

noun

1. English name: Napoleonic Code.  the civil code of France, promulgated between 1804 and 1810, comprising the main body of French civil law

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Example Sentences

The civil code is a localized modification of the Code Napoléon.

From Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by Paton, Andrew Archibald

Brought up in exile, unfamiliar with France, Louis Bonaparte had assumed that the bourgeoisie remembered only that the Empire had curbed the Revolution, established social order, and given France the Code Napoléon.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth

In particular was the Code Napoléon copied in the Netherlands, the Italian States, and the States of southern and western Germany.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

In Belgium the law is similar to that of the Code Napoléon, as it is also in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Roumania, Japan, and numerous South American lands.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock

It grins, with shame be it written, at an Imperial Diet modelled on the German plan and a Code Napoléon à la Japonaise.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard