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Legal code   /lˈigəl koʊd/   Listen
Legal code

noun
1.
A code of laws adopted by a state or nation.





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"Legal code" Quotes from Famous Books



... differentiated. The latter stands out upon the background of the former as something more sharply defined. Penalties and the method of their infliction are more exactly fixed. Not all violations of what is customary are taken up into the legal code as punishable offences, although they meet with that indefinite measure of punishment entailed by ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton


Words linked to "Legal code" :   Salic law, law, jus civile, code, jurisprudence, Roman law, Justinian code, criminal law, codification, United States Code, civil law, penal code, U. S. Code


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