Napoleonic Code | Definition, Facts, & Significance

Napoleonic Code, French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions, that was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America. Learn more about the Napoleonic Code’s development, contents, and influence in this article.

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