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

This prince sought to emulate the changes which had recently been made in France by dividing Cöthen into two departments and introducing the Code Napoléon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various

Active work on the Code Napoléon begun, and part of the civil code promulgated.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

It was doubtless largely as a religious offense that the Code Napoléon omitted to punish it.

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

Homosexual practices in private, between two consenting adult parties, whether men or women, are absolutely unpunished by the Code Napoléon and by French law of today.

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

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