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<p><b>Civil law</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=List_of_national_legal_systems">legal system</a> rooted in the <a href="page.php?w=Roman_Empire">Roman Empire</a> and was comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's <a href="page.php?w=Napoleonic_Code">Napoleonic Code</a> (1804) and Germany's <i>[[Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch]]</i> (1900). Unlike <a href="page.php?w=common_law">common law</a> systems, which rely heavily on judicial <a href="page.php?w=precedent">precedent</a>, civil law systems are characterized</p><p>
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