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Meanings of code of law in English

Russian
кодекс
Spanish
código
Catalan
codi

Integrated piece of legislation that aims to exhaustively cover an area of law.

        кодекс
        Synonyms
        Examples for "legal code"
        Examples for "legal code"
        1
        The stage was now set for Humphreys' brilliant manipulation of the legal code.
        The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
        2
        The usual legal code in this matter is shown by the notice below:
        The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
        3
        He liberalized the media and enshrined in France's legal code various civil freedoms.
        Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era
        4
        More importantly, it demonstrated the intellectual similarity between legal code and software code.
        Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
        5
        A national administrative structure, educational system, and legal code form three significant positive remnants.
        Hitler 1936 - 1945: Nemesis
        1
        Secondly, the emperor was bound by the law code: he could not change it nor abolish it.
        A History of China
        2
        Each new dynasty developed a new law code, usually changing only details of the punishment, not the basic regulations.
        A History of China
        3
        Although banned by the Italian civil law code, Italian banks have been using compound interest for over 50 years, Adusbef said.
        Reuters
        4
        While Mursi has promised to protect freedoms, his campaign was also peppered with promises to implement sharia, the Islamic law code.
        Reuters
        5
        Returning to their own land, the exiles took back with them the law code which the priests had manufactured for them.
        The Necessity of Atheism
        Usage of code of law in English
        1
        A code of law is more easily deified than a flesh-and-blood ruler.
        The zinn reader
        2
        During the second century BC, Babylon's greatest ruler, Hammurabi, produced the first code of law.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Dr. Lovell explains the attitude of the Anglo-Saxon race toward their divine code of law.
        The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
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        That is the De Gamelyn code of law, said the man, and handed Tim the flagon.
        War and the Weird
        5
        It constitutes the only literature, the only code of law and ethics, of many peoples and tribes.
        The Jericho Road
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        Such, finally, was the project of preparing a single comprehensive code of law for the whole country.
        A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
        7
        It seeks to establish a caliphate there, installing rule by sharia, the Islamic code of law and morals.
        Radio NZ
        8
        Why, here it was again, and with the worst of its ancient crimes inscribed upon its code of law.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        9
        A whole code of law, procedure, and precedent grew up on these two subjects, besides others scarcely less extensive.
        The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background o...
        10
        Love is my medicine and my code of law;
        The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
        11
        One of the points that Austin elaborated most was a classification such as might serve for a scientific code of law.
        John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works / Twelve Sketches by Herber...
        12
        There is, both among the Negro and Bantu, a recognised code of law, founded on principles of true but merciless justice.
        Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
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        But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.
        Brave New World
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        The writers do not say whether the code of morals referred to is a code of law or an unwritten code of public sentiment.
        Woman and the Republic / A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement...
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        Now according to the code of laws soldiering is forbidden to penitents.
        Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
        16
        The Koran is the Mohammedan's holy bible, creed, and code of laws.
        Modern Persia