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code of law
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integrated piece of legislation that aims to exhaustively cover an area of law
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Encyclopedic overview
First page of the 1804 original edition of the Napoleonic Code
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 cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the code was enacted, by a process of codification. Though the process and motivations for codification are similar in different common law and civil law systems, their usage is different.
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