The civil code in Italy is an organic body of provisions of civil law and legal norms of civil procedural law of general importance (e.g. book VI - title IV) and of incriminating norms (e.g. book V - title XI). The code currently in force was issued with the Royal Decree of 16 March 1942, n. 262, concerning the "Approval of the text of the Civil Code", and symbolically entered into force on 21 April of the same year (referring to the conventional date of the foundation of ancient Rome) constitutes, together with the special laws, one of the sources of law Italian civil law as still in force in the current Italian Republic.