The Napoleonic Code, also known as the Civil Code of 1804, abolished all rights depending on blood, created equal protection under the law, and guaranteed the right to own property. This Code was transmitted to the French-controlled territories. Napoleon streamlined districts eliminated the feudal society and liberated peasants from feudalism and manorial amount due in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. Farmers, craftsmen, labourers, and new businesspeople celebrated their sudden liberty. Industrialists and slight manufacturers, especially, came to recognise that consistent law, regular scales and measurements, and a single new currency will expedite the transportation and trade of commodities and money through one zone to another.