CIVIL CODE

By SovConn | April 19, 2014

civil code. 1. A comprehensive and systematic legislative pronouncement of the whole private, noncommercial law in a legal system of the continental civil-law tradition. 2. (cap.) The code that embodies the law of France, from which a great part of the Louisiana civil code is derived. — Abbr. CC. — Also termed Code Civil. See NAPOLEONIC CODE. 3. A codification of noncriminal statutes. [Blacks Law 8th]

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