The West Galician code (also The civil code of Western Galicia, german: Westgalizisches Gesetzbuch, rarely — ) was a civil code created in the 18th century and introduced in
West Galicia
New Galicia or West Galicia ( pl, Nowa Galicja or ''Galicja Zachodnia'', german: Neugalizien or ''Westgalizien'') was an administrative region of the Habsburg monarchy, constituted from the territory annexed in the course of the Third Partition ...
, an administrative region of the
Habsburg monarchy, created after the
Third Partition of Poland
The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polis ...
, prior to the introduction of
ABGB, the civil code of
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
. It contained little in the way of solving feudal-class problems and was based on the laws of nature.
Publications of the Code
* Codex civilis pro Galicia occidentali. — Wien, 1797. (''In Latin'')
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Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Civil codes