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Custom of Paris
The Custom of Paris was the body of customary law of the region of Paris, first written down in 1510 and revised in 1580. Made the civil law of New France in 1664, it governed property, inheritance, marriage and the seigneurial system in Canada, survived the British conquest under the Quebec Act of 1774 and remained the basis of Quebec law until the Civil Code of 1866.
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