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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...