Comparative law
contract; things, including immovable and movable property; domestic relations; and succession.
FRENCH CIVIL CODE
Napoleonic Code, French Code Napoleon, French civil code enacted in 1804 and still extant, with
revisions; it has been the main influence in the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of
continental Europe and Latin America.
The first book of the code deals with the law of persons: the enjoyment of civil rights, the protection
of personality, domicile, guardianship, tutorship, relations of parents and children, marriage,
personal relations of spouses, and the dissolution of marriage by annulment or divorce. The code
subordinated women to their fathers and husbands, who controlled all family property, determined
the fate of children, and were favoured in divorce proceedings. Many of these provisions were only
reformed in the second half of the 20th century. The second book deals with the law of things: the
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