LEGAL CODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legal code mean? 

• LEGAL CODE (noun)
  The noun LEGAL CODE has 1 sense:

1. a code of laws adopted by a state or nation

  Familiarity information: LEGAL CODE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGAL CODE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A code of laws adopted by a state or nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

a code of laws

Hypernyms ("legal code" is a kind of...):

code; codification (a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal code"):

civil law; jus civile; Justinian code; Roman law (the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law)

Salic law (the code of laws of the Salian Franks and other German tribes)

criminal law (the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment)

penal code (the legal code governing crimes and their punishment)

U. S. Code; United States Code (a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States; is prepared and published by a unit of the United States House of Representatives)