The term “civil code” describes the comprehensive law codes that toward the end of the early modern period, as chronologically and geographically neighboring evidence from Switzerland shows, were called Zivilgesetzbuch (“civil code”; e.g. Solothurn 1841/1847), Codice Civile (e.g. Ticino 1837), and “Privatgesetzbuch” (“private code”; e.g. Zurich 1856), but usually “Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch” (“civil code”; e.g. Lucerne 1831/18…