Definition of "legal code" []

• All the official laws of a country or state (noun)

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• ""Anu and Baal called me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, worshipper of the gods" .... so begins the oldest legal code which has come down to us, from 2250 B. C.; and the coronation service of the English church is made whole out of the same thesis."
• "The Federation’s legal code made no more than a gesture of attempting to cope with them."
• "A rash of visitors had broken out, envoys of a friend of Mr. Pitt’s named Jeremy Bentham, at present touring Russia with the intention of writing a legal code for the Empress Catherine, but also the author of a treatise on the virtues and vices of setting felons to hard labor on public works, and exponent of a new kind of prison-in-the-round."