European civil code

The European civil code is a proposed harmonisation of private law across the European Union. Its ultimate aim is, like a national civil code, to deal comprehensively with the core areas of private law, which typically include family law, the law of inheritance, property law and the law of obligations, the last covering contracts, delicts or torts, and restitution. The push for a comprehensive European civil code arose from work on European contract law, and its development has primarily focused on creating a unified law of contracts, so the term is often used with specific reference to the harmonisation of contract law throughout the EU.