The West Galician code (also The civil code of Western Galicia, , rarely — ) was a civil code created in the 18th century. Karl Anton Freiherr von Martini was the leading drafter. The code was introduced in West Galicia, an administrative region of the

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, created after the Third Partition of Poland, prior to the introduction of ABGB, the civil code of

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. It contained little in the way of solving feudal-class problems, but was based on the ideals of freedom and equality before the law shaped by natural law.

Publications of the Code

* Codex civilis pro Galicia occidentali. — Wien, 1797. (''In Latin'')

References

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