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Meanings of law code in English

Russian
кодекс
Spanish
código
Catalan
codi

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

        кодекс
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        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
        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
        4
        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
        Usage of law code in English
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        But certainly Justinian contrived to strike into history as no other Byzantine emperor did; with his law code, and with his church.
        The Crest-Wave of Evolution / A Course of Lectures in History, G...
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        The Uniform Code of Military Justice, the unique law code that governs the armed forces, does not allow a guilty plea to a capital charge.
        Reuters
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        Experts say civil law codes make judges reluctant to overrule contractual agreements, such as a sales deal.
        Reuters
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        I suppose a part of it is how much time I spend wrestling with legal briefs and law codes.
        War Of Honor
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        "The imperial law code forbids the application of collective guilt-
        The fifth servant
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        Law codes were associated with their names, and even miracles, when politics joined the forces of magic and religion (often playing one against the other).
        The Civilization of Illiteracy