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Civil law is a legal system rooted in the Roman Empire and comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's Napoleonic Code. 1
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Civil law is a legal system rooted in the Roman Empire and was comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's Napoleonic Code (1804) and Germany's Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (1900).
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