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National Commercial and Obligations Codes

Codes that regulate commercial dealing and the law of obligations in a national legal system: the American model code on sales and secured transactions and the German and Swiss commercial and obligations codes. A code belongs here when its cited article describes a commercial or obligations code, current or historical. It excludes civil codes and codes of procedure, which sit in their own subcategories.

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Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch, Introduction, sentence 1
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The Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch (ADHGB; English: General German Commercial Code (GGCC)) was the first comprehensive commercial code in Germany.
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Handelsgesetzbuch (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Handelsgesetzbuch, Introduction, sentence 1
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The Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB, in English Commercial Code) contains the core of the commercial law in Germany.
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Swiss Code of Obligations (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Swiss Code of Obligations, Introduction, sentence 1
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The Swiss Code of Obligations (SR/RS 22, German: Obligationenrecht; French: Code des obligations; Italian: Diritto delle obbligazioni; Romansh: Dretg d'obligaziuns), the 5th part of the Swiss civil code, is a federal law that regulates contract law and joint-stock companies (Aktiengesellschaft or SA).
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Uniform Commercial Code (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), Introduction, sentence 1
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The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), first published in 1952, is one of several uniform acts established as law with the goal of harmonizing the laws of sales and other commercial transactions across the United States through UCC adoption by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States.
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