Date of promulgation

For all the purposes foreseen in the same Code the date of promulgation, shall be the date on which the Code shall come into force in terms of preceding article. The transitory legislation over the slaves, who have been given freedom by the decree dated 25th February last, shall continue in force. If the rights and duties are confined to mutual relations amongst the citizens themselves as private persons or between citizens and the State in matters of property or of purely individual rights, these rights, and obligations constitute the civil capacity of citizens, they are known as civil rights and obligations and are regulated by the private law contained in the Civil Code with the exception of matters which are regulated by special law.