Excerpt from A Digest Laws of Belgium, and of the French Code Napol on In studying the English law, and comparing it with that of Belgium, one was surprised to observe, in the libraries available to us in this country, a lack of works in English relative to the admirable Code Napole'on, upon which are founded the laws of Belgium and France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.