💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Legal code"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| law of the landnoun | (law) A particular law or the complete set of laws currently in effect within a jurisdiction, especially with emphasis on the official and authoritative nature of such law. |
| lawcodenoun | (law) A body of law that is sanctioned by legislation. |
| statutory lawnoun | (law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body. |
| codenoun | (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode. |
| book lawnoun | (law, dated) Written law, statute law. |
| statute lawnoun | (law, uncountable) The completecorpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law. |
| statute booknoun | (informal, law) All the statutes and laws of a given jurisdiction, whether or not listed in an actual book. |
| civil codenoun | (law) A systematic collection of laws addressing dealings between private parties, such as business contracts and negligence lawsuits. |
| legal systemnoun | (law) The process by which a governing body enforces the law and legal procedures. |
| criminal codenoun | (law) A document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law. |
| basic lawnoun | A law or set of laws given to have constitutional powers and effect: a constitution. |
| common lawnoun | (law) Legal system mainly in England and its former colonies with a heavy emphasis on judge-made law, doctrines deduced by casuistry rather than from general principles, and law distributed among judicial decisions rather than codified statutes (as opposed to civil law). |
| corpus jurisnoun | The entire body of laws of a jurisdiction or of a particular court. |
| lex latanoun | (law) The law as it is. |
| policynoun | A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body. |
| session lawsnoun | (law) The published set of all laws passed during a specific legislative session, including those that will not be incorporated into the statutes of the jurisdiction. |
| rules and regulationsnoun | (law) legislation or other binding provisions |
| legislationnoun | A law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body. |
| civil lawnoun | (law) The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; |
| nation of lawsnoun | (chiefly US) A nation-state that is subject to the rule of law. |
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