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...

A legal code is a body of law written by a local, non-sovereign government authority, such as a municipality. Whether authored or merely adopted by a municipality...

Legal Code (or Great Ching Legal Code), also known as the Qing Code (Ching Code) or, in Hong Kong law, as the Ta Tsing Leu Lee (大清律例), was the legal code...

whole world. The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil-law legal system; it was preceded by...

The legal 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...

law and labor law are governed by codes of law. Codification is predominant in countries that adhere to the legal system of civil law. Spain, a civil...

by their reliance on legal codes that function as the primary source of law. Today, civil law is the world's most common legal system, practiced in about...

The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the...

The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a unique global identifier for legal entities participating in financial transactions. Also known as an LEI code or...

law, it is a legal code written in cuneiform script in the Sumerian language. It is the second-oldest known extant legal code after the Code of Ur-Nammu...

Macau's legal code is written in Portuguese; therefore law students at University of Macau take their classes in Portuguese. The apex of the legal system...

The Great Ming Code was the legal code of the Ming dynasty, focused primarily on criminal law. It was created at the direction of the dynasty’s founder...

The California Codes are 29 legal codes enacted by the California State Legislature, which, alongside uncodified acts, form the general statutory law of...

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 role...

The Code of Iowa contains the statutory laws of the U.S. state of Iowa. The Iowa Legislative Service Agency is a non-partisan governmental agency that...

Legal coding is the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document. It is widely used in the legal profession to create a fast-search index...

analysis Coding strand of DNA in molecular biology Legal coding, the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document in the legal profession...

Congress gives the title of the Code itself the force of law. This process makes that title of the United States Code "legal evidence" of the law in force...

As in most countries, Germany has a standard way of citing its legal codes and case law; an essentially identical system of citation is also used in Austria...

fully developed legal system, with all the necessary elements: courts, lawyers, judges, a fully articulated legal code, principles of legal interpretation...

more similar to civil law in its use of codes; and Islamic sharia law (and fiqh jurisprudence) is based on legal precedent and reasoning by analogy (qiyas)...

person has towards himself and to others, thus including moral codes as well as legal codes. Olivelle states that this is similar to the modern contrast...

Official Code of Georgia Annotated or OCGA is the compendium of all laws in the state of Georgia. Like other state codes in the United States, its legal interpretation...

into Serbian and had received legal authority by 1349, and its articles had influenced the text of the Code. Dušan's Code was heavily influenced by Byzantine...

Foundations of Legal Research and Writing (5th ed.). Clifton Park, New York: Delmar. p. 139. ISBN 9781285402604. "About the US Code". US Government Publishing...

considers sexual intercourse with the stepfamily to be incestuous. The legal code of Pakistan defines incest as marriage (consortion) between a male and...

the basis for local legal codes in the Balkans during the following Ottoman period and later formed the basis of the legal code of Modern Greece. In...

follow up through legal transplants in codification was Serbia, the Serbian Civil Code (1844). Meanwhile, the French Napoleonic code (Code Civil) was enacted...

Australian legal documentary program Code: Secret Room, 2016 South Korean TV series Code (video game), a puzzle video game Konami Code, a cheat code which...

jurisdiction, eliminating social and legal differences, and allowing greater assimilation of the populations. As such, the Code marks the transition from the...