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In France, direct parallels are drawn between the meaning of concubinage in Roman law and its contemporary usage as a synonym for civil union, [9] [10] where it is derived from the Napoleonic Code. [11] While the Napoleonic Code or French Civil Code defined concubinage, it did not, however, address their status, with Napoleon Bonaparte, at the ...
The Philippine Civil Code is strongly influenced by the Spanish Civil Code, which was first enforced in 1889 within the Philippines when it was still a colony of the Spanish Empire. The Código Civil remained in effect even throughout the American Occupation ; by 1940, the Commonwealth Government of President Manuel Luis Quezon formed a ...
The Civil Code governs private law in the Philippines, including obligations and contracts, succession, torts and damages, property. It was enacted in 1950. Book I of the Civil Code, which governed marriage and family law, was supplanted by the Family Code in 1987. [2] Republic Act No. 6657: Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Code
Les cinq codes (English: the five codes) was a set of legal codes established under Napoléon I between 1804 and 1810: Code civil (1804), the first and best known; Code de procédure civile (1806) Code de commerce (1807) Code d’instruction criminelle (1808) Code pénal (1810)
Argentina: The 1870 Civil Code secure legal majority for unmarried women and widows, though it confirms married women as minors. [85] Finland: Women allowed to study at the universities by dispensation (dispensation demand dropped in 1901). [86] United Kingdom: Married Women's Property Act 1870; India: Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870
The Revised Penal code of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 3815. Article 245 of the Act holds that where any police officer or warden immorally or indecently advances to a woman under his watch, that officer or warden will be charged and could face suspension or disqualification of his post. [39]
The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception. [1]
In the early 19th century, the Napoleonic Code denied women civil and political rights, prohibiting them from working, voting, earning money, or entering schools and universities without the consent of their husband or father. [4] [3] At that time, widows were the only women in French society to be free and to be allowed to run their own ...