On 1 June 1794, the Allgemeines Landrecht für die Preußischen Staaten, the General State Law for the Prussian States, came into force. It had 19,194 sections. Its authors had aimed to solve every possible case and to leave no ambiguity or room for interpretation. One section obliged a healthy mother to breastfeed her baby. Most of the code remained in force in Prussia until 1900. The Max Planck encyclopedia of European private law calls the usual view of it as casuistic legislation one-sided, because the code also contains highly abstract rules.