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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
A general system of the law, embodied and authorized by legislative enactment. Code civil or Code Napoleon: a code of the law of persons and property, estabhshed in Erance under Napoleon I.