System of rules and guidelines, generally backed by governmental authority.
Legal term meaning body of law.
1Collectively, they have become their own precedent, their own body of law.
2Traditionally, that body of law demands evidence beyond all reasonable doubt.
3Turkey has now to adopt the EU's huge body of law and values.
4A considerable body of law has come down to us in AEthelstan's name.
5They have to subscribe to the body of law that others decide for them.
6This body of law is largely founded on a "just desserts" retributive philosophy.
7The registration, account-keeping and other secretarial work, which perhaps indicates a considerable body of law.
8The whole body of law-pundits wrote of Sati as only "permitted."
9There is no well-developed body of law to stop IP owners from leveraging those rights to squelch speech.
10In sum, the prior history of these cases rather than a standing body of law has taken centre stage.
11In conclusion we need only quote the Constitution, the basic body of law under which the United States is governed.
12There is a tendency for legislators to ignore the effect of a new statute upon the existing body of law.
13But already just in the general body of law there are very, very strict rules around the use of victim impact statements.
14When I compel an answer from a heretic, I have the whole body of law behind me, the whole might of Christendom.
15Underpinning this body of law is a consistent prerequisite that the force of the attack or threatened attack to be resisted is imminent.
16And there is a growing body of law designed to prevent parents from using their children ruthlessly to make money for the household.
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