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Civil code
Codification of the civil law / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Civil procedure.
For other uses, see Civil law (disambiguation).
A civil code is a codification of private law relating to property, family, and obligations.
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A jurisdiction that has a civil code generally also has a code of civil procedure. In some jurisdictions with a civil code, a number of the core areas of private law that would otherwise typically be codified in a civil code may instead be codified in a commercial code.