Definition of Legal code

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


Definition of Legal code

1. Noun. (legal) All the official laws of a country or state ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legal Code

legacy system
legacy systems
legal
legal-beagle
legal-eagle
legal-entity
legal action
legal age
legal ages
legal aid
legal beagle
legal beagles
legal blindness
legal brief
legal code (current term)
legal community
legal dentistry
legal document
legal duties
legal duty
legal eagle
legal eagles
legal entities
legal entity
legal expert
legal fee
legal fiction
legal fictions
legal fraud

Literary usage of Legal code

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook in the History of Modern Elementary Education: With Emphasis on by Samuel Chester Parker (1912)
"Fundamental Prussian legal code (1794) defined schools as state institutions.— Under Frederick the Great was begun the codification of the fundamental ..."

2. A Textbook in the History of Modern Elementary Education: With Emphasis on by Samuel Chester Parker (1912)
"Fundamental Prussian legal code (1794) defined schools as state institutions. — Under Frederick the Great was begun the codification of the fundamental ..."

3. The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick (1901)
"... and ask which is prior, the answer would seem to be difl'erent in respect of diU'erent parts of the legal code. generally endeavour to observe, ..."

4. Notes on Sovereignty from the Standpoint of the State and of the World by Robert Lansing (1921)
"THE LAW OF NATIONS, A COMPLETE legal code Until the time is ripe for the establishment of a central government to announce, interpret, and enforce World Law ..."

5. Connecticut as a Colony and as a State: Or, One of the Original Thirteen by Bartlett, Ellen Strong, Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, Holmes, Frank R, Morgan, Forrest, b. 1852, Trumbull, Jonathan, 1844- (1904)
"... applied to the supposed legal code of New Haven Colony during its brief existence, has its chief currency (though not, as generally supposed, ..."

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