The Custom of Paris (French: Coutume de Paris) was one of France's regional custumals of civil law. It was the law of the land in Paris and the surrounding...

Africa and parts of the United States. In civil law countries such as Spain, France and Germany, spouses can generally select one of several matrimonial...

A series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis...

stake as a way of affording her a more humane end. French criminal law Legal issues of New France The Custom of Paris in New France New France Dickinson (1996)...

Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris. A vast viceroyalty, New France consisted...

Code's rules borrowed heavily from the Custom of Paris. Fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France Legal history of France "The Civil Code: an Overview". www...

smoking plant, salad herb, or used in onguent. It was at the French court that the custom of adding milk to tea was first established: pouring a few cold...

The Great Peace of Montreal (French: La Grande paix de Montréal) was a peace treaty between New France and 39 First Nations of North America that ended...

The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by the American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern...

Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane [ot.lwi.zjan]; Spanish: Alta Luisiana)—was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s in what is now the...