The most famous of the codes, the code Napoleon or code civil, still forms the basis of French civil law.

章程中最著名的就是《拿破仑法典》和《内战法典》，它还为法国民法的形成奠定了基础。

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The two factors most closely associated with higher liability costs are the number of lawyers and whether the country has a common-law system like the U.S., where judges decide much of the law governing liability or a civil law tradition, where the rules are set down in a relatively unchanging civil code.

FORBES: Study Pins Higher U.S. Liability Costs On Lawyers, Court System