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History

The categories of the Napoleonic Code were not drawn from earlier French law, but instead from Justinian's sixth-century codification of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, and within it, the Institutes. The Institutes divide into the law of:

# persons
# things
# actions.

Similarly, the Napoleonic Code divided the law into four sections:

# persons
# property
# acquisition

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