Civil Code
A civil code typically forms the core of civil law systems. The legal Code typically covers exhaustively the entire system of private law.
Civil codes are sometimes also found in common law systems, especially in the United States of America. However, such civil codes are often collections of common law rules and a variety of ad hoc statutes; that is, they do not aspire to complete logical coherence.
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