A code of law, also called a law code or legal code, is a systematic collection of statutes. It is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively...
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Code of Law (titled Code of Law: Final in its fifth season) is a Singaporean English-language police procedural and legal drama television series produced...
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include: The Code of Ur-Nammu of Ur. The Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin. The Laws of Eshnunna (written by Bilalama or by Dadusha). The "Laws of X," which,...
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Corpus Juris Civilis (redirect from Justinian's code of law)
the Code or the Digest. All three parts, even the textbook, were given force of law. They were intended to be, together, the sole source of law; reference...
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Manusmriti (redirect from Manus Code of Laws)
philologist Sir William Jones. Manusmriti was used to construct the Hindu law code for the East India Company-administered enclaves. The title Manusmriti...
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States Code (formally The Code of Laws of the United States of America) is the official codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the...
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Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, is the "fundamental body of...
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Code of Canon Law (Latin: Codex Iuris Canonici) may refer to: Corpus Juris Canonici ('Body of Canon Law'), a collection of sources of canon law of the...
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Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is...
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The 1917 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1917 CIC, from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also referred to as the Pio-Benedictine Code, is the first...
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The law of Japan refers to the legal system in Japan, which is primarily based on legal codes and statutes, with precedents also playing an important...
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The Italian law codes constitute the codified law of Italy. There used to be only five codes of Italian law: the civil code, the code of civil procedure...
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instruments. Many civil law legal systems have codifications of commercial law. Civil code Civil law (legal system) Commercial law "Law". Dictionary.com. v...
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Uniform Civil Code is a proposal in India to formulate and implement personal laws of citizens which apply equally to all citizens, regardless of their religion...
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The Criminal Code (French: Code criminel) is a law of the Parliament of Canada that codifies most, but not all, criminal offences and criminal procedure...
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Napoleonic Code (1804) and Germany's Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (1900). Unlike common law systems, which rely heavily on judicial precedent, civil law systems...
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influenced by the French civil code, Roman Law, and traditional Ukrainian customary law.[citation needed] The new civil law books (enacted in 2004) were...
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The Gortyn code (also called the Great Code) was a legal code that was the codification of the civil law of the ancient Greek city-state of Gortyn in southern...
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contains the basic code of Jewish law, which some Israeli communities choose to use. The Halakha is a code of Jewish law that summarizes some of the Talmud's...
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Danish Penal Code, also known as the Danish Criminal Code (Danish: Straffeloven), is the codification of and the foundation of criminal law in Denmark....
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Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure (C.Cr.P.) governs criminal procedure, the Louisiana Code of Evidence governs the law of evidence, the Criminal Code (CrC)...
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are governed by codes of law. Codification is predominant in countries that adhere to the legal system of civil law. Spain, a civil law country, introduced...
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The law of obligations is one branch of private law under the civil law legal system and so-called "mixed" legal systems. It is the body of rules that...
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Visigothic Code (Latin: Forum Iudicum, Liber Iudiciorum, or Book of the Judgements; Spanish: Fuero Juzgo), also called Lex Visigothorum (English: Law of the...
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section of Norwegian law until the Norwegian Code of issued by Christian V of Denmark in 1688. However, a number of features of the current Law of Norway...
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code or penal code is a document that compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law. Typically a criminal code will...
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code was a common feature of the legal systems of the ancient Middle East. Many of them are examples of cuneiform law. The oldest evidence of a code of...
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common law regarding marriages, divorces, and adoption. On February 7, 2024, the Indian state of Uttarakhand also incorporated a uniform civil code. In the...
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Traffic codes are laws that generally include provisions relating to the establishment of authority and enforcement procedures, statement of the rules of the...
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Codex Theodosianus (redirect from Theodosian law code)
The Codex Theodosianus ("Theodosian Code") is a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established...
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