1916 · Criminal codes

Nigerian Criminal Code

Nigeria

The criminal code that applies in the southern states of Nigeria, now a federal statute, for offences from homicide to property crime.

Why it matters

It is a clear case of one colony's code, written for Queensland, reaching a country on another continent through the British Empire.

Built on

1899 (in force 1901)

Queensland Criminal Code (Griffith Code)

Queensland (Australia)

based on the Queensland Code

Went on to shape

No later text on this timeline is recorded as built on it.

Countries in the Legal Families Atlas

Nigeria

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