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private law relating to property, family, and obligations

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Category:Civil codes
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Countries with a collection of laws known formally or informally as "civil code". A civil code is a codification of private law relating to property, family, and obligations.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “civil code” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.