legal code
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈliːɡəl koʊd/
- Formal
:
código legal
- The government recently updated its legal code to better protect individual rights.
- modern legal code
- Western legal code
- international legal code
And he says, you know, look at societies where they never really thought out their legal code.
- And he says, you know, look at societies where they never really thought out their legal code.
Examples
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For those national organizations concerned with the future, the development of a basic legal code, for example regarding personal status laws or workers' rights, has been a key priority.
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Some tribes have extremely well-developed legal codes and court procedures that are as intricate and broad as any nontribal system.
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And so the story and the the legal code, they kind of go hand in hand.
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And we can talk about that as being just or unjust just as much as the legal code itself.
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Community policing and an agile legal code are good measures.
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Wasn't civil law descended from the legal code of the Roman Empire?
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Moreover, to make the transferred property rights meaningful, a legal code spelling out and guaranteeing those rights must be in place.
Academic text (1991) -
King Hammurabi of Babylon was regulating commerce in the 18th century B.C. in his legal code.
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When the emperor Justinian called for reform of the legal codes, he turned to Beirut's scholars to oversee the revision.
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Market economies presuppose legal structures, a system of private and public law—a legal code that has to be taught, learned, and gradually assimilated.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
492
3.9
A set of rules that people agree to follow in a job or group
326
1.0
A rule thought to be part of human nature and right for everyone
31
4.7
Main laws of a country made by its government
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5.9
Laws made by a parliament or congress and written down
How Comprehensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a collection or system of laws' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'legal' (pertaining to the law) with 'code' (a set of written rules). This noun–noun composition follows regular English compounding and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase legal code comes from the simple idea of putting all the laws into one clear code or book. A code was a list of rules that shows what is 'allowed' and 'not allowed', so legal code means the official 'set of laws' a country follows.