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Worldwide Influence Of The French Civil Code Of 1804, On The Occasion Of Its Bicentennial Celebration, Xavier Blanc-Jouvan
Worldwide Influence Of The French Civil Code Of 1804, On The Occasion Of Its Bicentennial Celebration, Xavier Blanc-Jouvan
Cornell Law School Berger International Speaker Papers
The French Civil Code (still called the Code Napoleon) is now two hundred years old. Its bicentennial has been celebrated this year in many countries. The reason is that is Code has experienced an extraordinary expansion throughout the world during the XIXth and XXth centuries. But how influential is it today? A certain weakening of its positions is due to a number of factors : legal (the abundance of models now available) and cultural (the regression of the use of French as an international legal language as well as the declining attraction of our universities in the formation of foreign …
The Public Policy Of Contracts To Will Future Acquired Property, Joseph H. Drake
The Public Policy Of Contracts To Will Future Acquired Property, Joseph H. Drake
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The general subject of wills upon consideration seems to have given courts and jurists a good deal of trouble, not only in England and America, but also in the continental countries. The Code Napoleon appears in terms actually to prohibit the making of reciprocal or mutual wills in the same instrument.