In a letter to the editor published Jan. 31 and titled "A legal code on guilt for priest?," the author wrote that "in the Napoleonic Code an accused person was considered guilty until proven innocent.

In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, a letter dictated and signed by Napoleon in secret code that declares his intentions "to blow up the Kremlin" during his ill-fated Russian campaign is ...

Under the direction of France’s most famous ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Napoleonic Code – the Code Napoléon – took force this week (March 21) in 1804. Napoleon’s goal was to reform the archaic and ...

Original manuscripts on the Consulate and Empire that belonged to Jean-Etienne-Marie Portalis (1746-1807), one of the architects of the Napoleonic Code at an auction in 2012. (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE ...

There are many things that Napoleon Bonaparte was known for — his leadership abilities, his rise and fall, his height, his hand tucked in his coat, Josephine. In Louisiana, however, he is widely known ...

FONTAINEBLEAU, France - The single line of Napoleon's secret code told Paris of his desperate, last order against the Russians: "At three o'clock in the morning, on the 22nd I am going to blow up the ...

Reading the courtroom thrillers of John Grisham, people are left with the impression that the system of American criminal justice is the same the world over. It is not. Other countries have their own ...