Company of One Hundred Associates
The Custom of Paris was introduced in 1627 by the Company of One Hundred Associates. Then, in 1664 under the royal charter of the French West India Company, Louis XIV made the Custom of Paris the only legitimate source of civil law throughout New France and other French colonies until 1763. In Quebec, however, it was not replaced until the entering into force of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, which incorporated English law into its existing legal framework.