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    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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  • civil law and labor law are governed by legal codes. Codification is predominant in countries that adhere to the legal system of civil law. Spain, a civil...
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    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...
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    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...
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    countries are civil code countries that had their own version of their civil code for centuries. The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    doctrinal strains such as natural law, codification, and legal positivism. The Napoleonic Code is the most widespread system of law in the world, in force...
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  • The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a unique global identifier for legal entities participating in financial transactions. Also known as an LEI code or...
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    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...
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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 role...
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  • The Labor Code of the Philippines is the legal code governing employment practices and labor relations in the Philippines. It was enacted through Presidential...
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    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...
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    The California Codes are 29 legal codes enacted by the California State Legislature, which, alongside uncodified acts, form the general statutory law of...
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    Foundations of Legal Research and Writing (5th ed.). Clifton Park, New York: Delmar. p. 139. ISBN 9781285402604. "About the US Code". US Government Publishing...
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    The Code of Virginia is the statutory law of the U.S. state of Virginia and consists of the codified legislation of the Virginia General Assembly. The...
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  • Maryland Code was formerly divided into numbered titles, but was recodified into subject-specific articles which must be cited by name. legal code at Wikipedia's...
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  • 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...
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  • Manusmriti (redirect from Manu's Code)
    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...
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    earlier law-codes existed, such as the Code of Urukagina, this represents the earliest extant legal text. It is three centuries older than the Code of Hammurabi...
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    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)...
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    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...
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  • sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow...
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    jurisdiction, eliminating social and legal differences, and allowing greater assimilation of the populations. As such, the Code marks the transition from the...
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    follow up through legal transplants in codification was Serbia, the Serbian Civil Code (1844). Meanwhile, the French Napoleonic code (Code Civil) was enacted...
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    The Doom Book, Dōmbōc, Code of Alfred or Legal Code of Ælfred the Great was the code of laws ("dooms" being laws or judgments) compiled by Alfred the...
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    "Civil Code of the Republic of Korea". Legal Knowledge Information System (in Korean). Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. "Alabama Code: Title...
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  • This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard...
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  • Territory where he was a principal author of the territory's first legal code, the Howell Code. Howell was born on July 8, 1810, in Goshen, New York, to parents...
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