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The [[Mexican state]] of [[Oaxaca]] promulgated the first Latin American civil code in 1827, copying the French civil code.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

Later on, in 1830, the civil code of [[Bolivia]], a summarized copy of the French one, was promulgated by [[Andrés de Santa Cruz]]. The latest, with some changes, was adopted by [[Costa Rica]] in 1841.<ref>{{Citation needed|title=Bolivia - Legal History |work=Foreign Law Guide |url=https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/FLG/COM-034301.xml |access-date=September2025-03-05 2022|publisher=Brill |language=en}}</ref>

The [[Dominican Republic]], in 1845, put into force the original Napoleonic code, in French language (a translation in Spanish was published in 1884).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guide to Legal Research in the Dominican Republic - GlobaLex |url=https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Dominican_Republic.html |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=www.nyulawglobal.org}}</ref>

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| ''[[Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch]]''

| 1812

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| 1946<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Greece.html|first=Maria|last=Panezi|title=A Description of the Structure of the Hellenic Republic, the Greek Legal System, and Legal Research|work=[[GlobaLex]]|date=April 2006|access-date=2018-04-24}}</ref>

| Replaced the ''Hexabiblos'' and the Civil Law of 1856; also locally the 1841 Ionian Civil Code, 1899 Civil Code of Samos, and the 1904 Cretan Civil Code<ref>Eugenia Dacoronia, "The Evolution of the Greek Civil Law", in ''Regional Private Laws and Codification in Europe'', eds. Hector L. MacQueen, Antoni Vaquer, & Santiago Espiau Espiau (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 290-1.</ref>

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| ''[[Burgerlijk Wetboek]]'' (Civil Code of 1838)

| 1848

| Still in force in [[Indonesia]] since 1848, while its replaced by [[Burgerlijk Wetboek|Nieuw Burgerlijk Wetboek]] in [[The Netherlands]]. This Civil Code as known as [[Civil Code of Indonesia]].

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| 1999

| Replaced the 1966 Portuguese Civil Code

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| [[Mesopotamia]]

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| 1838

| style="background:#fbe4e3;"| Defunct

| Still in force in [[Indonesia]] since 1848, as the Indonesian Civil Code . It was also applied in Timor-Leste, ''de facto'' from 1976 to 2002 and ''de jure'' from 2002 to 2011.

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