However, the country is far from having a common civil code.

A civil code and family law drafted in 1976 also gave women some important rights.

A more direct influence on the social system itself was the new Japanese civil code of 1898.

The law changed the definition of marriage in the city's civil code to "a free union between two people".

They should work instead to bring the Muslim civil code into the modern era.

"This is the first time we have completed a civil code," he said.

Normal cases of damage are ruled by the civil code.

In this work he personally prepared almost the whole of the political and civil codes.

Several states have made drug use by pregnant women a violation of civil codes.

On the other hand, party leaders have promised that they would subject Muslims to a common civil code.