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When was the Napoleonic Code enacted?

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Mosaic portrait of Emperor Justinian I with a jeweled crown and halo, from the 6th-century Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. — Civil law Justinian I, detail of a 6th-century mosaic at the Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.

The Napoleonic Code was enacted on March 21, 1804.12

Following the French Revolution, the code was developed to provide a uniform body of law for the entire French state. It was the result of extensive legislative work by the Consulate and was passed as a series of 36 statutes between 1801 and 1803 before being consolidated into a single body of law on that date.1