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legal code — index code, constitution, jurisprudence, law, pandect (code of laws) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Legal code (municipal) — A legal code is a body of law written by a governmental body, such as a U.S. state, a Canadian Province or German Bundesland or a municipality. Whether authored or merely adopted by a municipality, it is typically, though not exclusively,… … Wikipedia
legal code — noun a code of laws adopted by a state or nation a code of laws • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Hypernyms: ↑code, ↑codification • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Great Qing Legal Code — The Great Qing Legal Code or Qing Code ( and sub statutes, the Qing code contained 1,907 statutes from over 30 times of revisions between 1644 and 1912. The Qing code was the last legal code of imperial China. By the end of Qing dynasty, it was… … Wikipedia
Legal history — or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilizations and is set in the wider context of social history. Among certain jurists and historians of legal… … Wikipedia
code — n [Old French, from Medieval Latin codex, from Latin caudex codex tree trunk, set of wood writing tablets, book] 1: a systematic compilation or revision of law or legal principles that is arranged esp. by subject: as a: one that contains the law… … Law dictionary
Code of Hammurabi — Code on clay tablet Code on diorite stele The Code of Hammurabi is a well preserved Babylon … Wikipedia
Code of Ur-Nammu — Ur Nammu (seated) bestows governorship on Ḫašḫamer, ensi of Iškun Sin (cylinder seal impression, ca. 2100 BC) … Wikipedia
code — [kəʊd ǁ koʊd] noun 1. [countable] LAW a complete set of written rules or laws: • Each state in the US has a different criminal and civil code. ˈbuilding code [countable] LAW a set of rules that states what features a new building, bridge etc… … Financial and business terms
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace — (1999) is a book by Lawrence Lessig. It has evolved into a partially wiki written book Code v2 under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License.[1] Contents 1 Main topic 2 In detail 3 … Wikipedia
