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  2. Six Codes - Wikipedia

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    Six Codes (Chinese: 六法; pinyin: Liù Fǎ; Kana: ろっぽう; Hangul: 육법) refers to the six main legal codes that make up the main body of law in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. [1] Sometimes, the term is also used to describe the six major areas of law. Furthermore, it may refer to all or part of a collection of statutes.

  3. Category:Legal codes - Wikipedia

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    Celtic law; Cham law; Chinese law; Classical Hindu law; Classical Hindu law in practice; Code of Entry and Residence of Foreigners and of the Right to Asylum; Code of Hammurabi; Code of Lekë Dukagjini; Code of Lipit-Ishtar; Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses; Code of Ur-Nammu; Casimir's Code; Cornwallis Code; Criminal ...

  4. Code of law - Wikipedia

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    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. [1]

  5. List of areas of law - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of major areas of legal practice and important legal subject-matters. From, one of the five capital lawyers in Roman Law, Domitius Ulpianus, (170–223) – who differentiated ius publicum versus ius privatum – the European, more exactly the continental law, philosophers and thinkers want(ed) to put each branch of law into this dichotomy: Public and Private Law ...

  6. United States Code - Wikipedia

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    The United States Code (formally The Code of Laws of the United States of America) [1] is the official codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States. [2] It contains 53 titles, which are organized into numbered sections. [3] [4]

  7. List of laws - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of "laws" applied to various disciplines. These are often adages or predictions with the appellation 'Law', although they do not apply in the legal sense, cannot be scientifically tested, or are intended only as rough descriptions (rather than applying in each case).

  8. List of United States federal legislation - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation. Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 119 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.

  9. List of national legal systems - Wikipedia

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    Influenced by German Civil Code and Japanese Six Codes. Enacted in 1931. Timor-Leste: Based on Portuguese civil law Turkey: Modeled after the Swiss civil law (Zivilgesetzbuch) of 1907. Ukraine: Based on German civil law and was accepted in 2004. Uruguay: The basis for its public law is the 1967 Constitution, amended in 1989, 1994, 1996, and 2004.