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The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a [[civil law (legal system)|civil-law]] [[legal system]]; it was preceded by the {{lang|la|[[Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis]]}} ([[Bavaria]], 1756), the {{lang|de|[[Allgemeines Landrecht]]}} ([[Prussia]], 1794), and the ''[[West Galician Code]]'' ([[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]], then part of [[Austria]], 1797).{{cn|date=June 2023}} It was, however, the first modern legal code to be adopted with a pan-European scope, and it strongly influenced the law of many of the countries formed during and after the [[Napoleonic Wars]].<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/history-of-law-in-europe/french-revolution-and-the-law/39F246BD158F001C5ACBFB8B471A6D35 29 - The French Revolution and the Law], in ''Part IV - The Age of Reforms (1750–1814)'', Cambridge University Press, 31 July 2017; Antonio Padoa-Schioppa,
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Caterina Fitzgerald</ref><ref name="Robert B. Holtman 1981"/> The Napoleonic Code influenced developing countries outside Europe attempting to modernize and defeudalize their countries through legal reforms, though in [[Latin America]] the Spanish and Portuguese had established their own versions of the civil code <ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/840794 | jstor=840794 | title=Civil Law and Common Law in the Legal Method of Puerto Rico | last1=Matta | first1=Liana Fiol | journal=The American Journal of Comparative Law | date=1992 | volume=40 | issue=4 | pages=783–815 | doi=10.2307/840794 }}</ref> and the [[Middle East]].<ref>{{cite book|page=19|title=Globalization and New International Public Works Agreements in Developing Countries: An Analytical Perspective|author=Mohamed A.M. Ismail | publisher=Routledge |year=2016|isbn=9781317127031|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-gFDAAAQBAJ|via=[[Google Books]]|quote="All civil codes of Arab Middle Eastern states are based on Napoleonic Codes and were influenced by Egyptian legislation"}}</ref>
 
[[File:Speyer (DerHexer) 2010-12-19 051.jpg|thumb|The Napoleonic Code in the [[Historical Museum of the Palatinate]] in [[Speyer]]]]
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DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11382</ref> and Puerto Rican civil codes.<ref>{{Citation |year= 1950 |last=Rabel |first=Ernst |contribution= Private Laws of Western Civilization: Part II. The French Civil Code |title=Louisiana Law Review |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=110 |url=http://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/lalrev/vol10/iss2/2/ |access-date= December 1, 2016}}</ref>
 
In [[Mauritius]], the Civil Code, which originates from the Napoleonic Code, represents an important primary source of law and provides for the rights of individuals, matrimonial regimes, contract law, and property law, amongst others.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mauritiuscounsel.com/mauritian-legal-system/ | title=The Mauritian Legal System | date=January 2018 }}</ref> The French Civil Code was extended to Mauritius under the title Code Napoléon by decree of [[Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen]], Capitaine-General, on 21 April 1808.<ref>{{Cite web |title=electronic |url=https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/88152/114145/F-172904586/MUS88152%20Fre.pdf {{bare URL PDF|datewebsite=April 2023www.ilo.org}}</ref> The Code was modified and embodied in Chapter 179 of the Revised Laws of Mauritius 1945, edited by Sir Charlton Lane, former Chief Justice of Mauritius. The 1808 decree was repealed by Act 9 of 1983, but the Revision of Laws Act which was enacted in 1974, made provision, in section 7, for the publication of the Code under the title “Code Civil Mauricien.”<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/88152/114145/F-172904586/MUS88152%20Fre.pdf Code Civil Mauricien]</ref>
 
In the United States, the legal system is largely based on [[English common law]]. But the state of [[Louisiana]] is unique in having a strong influence from French and Spanish legal traditions on its [[Louisiana Civil Code|civil code]]. Spanish and French colonial forces quarreled over Louisiana during most of the 1700s, with Spain ultimately ceding the territory to France in 1800, which in turn sold the territory to the United States in 1803.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://go.galegroup.com.libezp.lib.lsu.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3446900575&v=2.1&u=lln_alsu&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=be47621d0f52559f686e81e7fc83d650|title = Napoleonic Code|date = 2006|access-date = 17 Feb 2016|website = Gale Virtual Reference Library|publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons|last = Bonfield|first = Lloyd}}</ref> The [[Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|10th Amendment]] to the US Constitution grants states control of laws not specifically given to the Federal government, so Louisiana's legal system retains many French elements. Examples of the practical legal differences between Louisiana and the other states include the [[bar exam]] and legal standards of practice for attorneys in Louisiana being significantly different from other states; Louisiana is the only American state to practice [[forced inheritance]] of an estate; also, some of Louisiana's laws clash with the [[Uniform Commercial Code]] practiced by the other 49 states.<ref>Engber, Daniel. [http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2005/09/louisianas_napoleon_complex.html Is Louisiana Under Napoleonic Code?] Slate.com, retrieved 11 September 2014</ref>
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