📚 Civil Law

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with civil law on their catalogue record, first published between 1856 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject civil law in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 17,988 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch	Germany	1900	71
Código civil	Spain.	1904	58
Código civil	Brazil	1915	58
Código civil 1978	Portugal.	1962	34
Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch	Austria.	1907	31
Código civil	Chile	1856	26
Civil code	California.	1872	26
Civil Code of the Philippines	Philippines.	1949	22
Istituzioni di diritto civile	Alberto Trabucchi	1947	20
Código civil	Colombia.	1942	19
Droit civil	Jean Carbonnier	1955	19
Grundstücksmiete	Fritz Kiefersauer	1932	16
Qānūn-i Asāsī (1979)	Iran	1980	15
Zakony grazhdanskīe	A. K. Gauger	1886	14
Public Law	Michael Doherty	2016	14
Manuel de droit civil	Pierre Voirin	1900	13
Code civil	Belgium.	1968	13
Código civil del Estado de México	Mexico (Mexico : State)	1978	13
Código civil	Uruguay.	1893	12
Grundriss des bürgerlichen Rechts	Helmut Koziol	1900	12
Principles of South African law	Wille, George	1937	12
Manuale di diritto privato	Andrea Torrente	1952	10
Compendio de derecho civil	Rafael Rojina Villegas	1967	10
Derecho civil	Manuel Albaladejo	1900	9
Derecho civil	Arturo Valencia Zea	1957	9
The civil law tradition	John Henry Merryman	1969	9
Istituzioni di diritto privato	Pietro Trimarchi	1973	9
Elementos de derecho civil mexicano	Rafael de Pina	1900	8
Código civil	Cuba.	1916	7
A common lawyer looks at the civil law	F. H. Lawson	1953	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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