legal code
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegalandcode
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legal
adjective
uk/ˈliː.ɡəl/us/ˈliː.ɡəl/
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code
noun
uk/kəʊd/us/koʊd/
a system of words, letters, or signs used to represent a message in secret form, or a system of numbers, letters, or signals used to represent something in a shorter or more ...
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(Definition oflegalandcodefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegal code
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The timing between changes in the metropolitanlegalcodeand the drafting of the 1903 coloniallegalcodeare not accidental.
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Swedish wills hardly ever mention executors, nor does thelegalcode.
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Yet, earlier social practice, if not thelegalcode, did allow such arrangements.
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By enforcing literally a comprehensivelegalcode, the state would enable citizens to know precisely their rights and responsibilities.
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I am referring to thelegalcode.
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The largescale fraud, corruption and practices of intimidation which accompany this manoeuvring are contrary to thelegalcodeof public conduct.
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It is constructed through the interaction of software code andlegalcodethat admonishes and prevents users from sharing files or streams.
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Their reluctance was reinforced by the popular belief that trading on the black market, unless done at extortionate rates, was not a crime, whatever thelegalcodesaid.
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It is a climate of opinion existing within the courts and thelegalcode.
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There was an elaboratelegalcodefor adoption in those days.
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He appears to have breached some element of this country'slegalcode.
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International police forces cannot control in the absence of any internationally acceptedlegalcode.
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Of course alegalcodeis important, but what really matters is self-discipline.
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I wish to touch on the relationship between the moral code and thelegalcode.
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This code of practice ought to disappear altogether as part of thelegalcode.
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That needs to be corrected by having alegalcodewhich is applicable to every leasehold flat.
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We must introduce alegalcodewhich removes the anomalies and uncertainties that exist in some leases.
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So far as alegalcodeand legal offences are concerned, they can be dealt with by regulations.
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We are saying that there is alegalcodedealing with personal information that has been enacted into law.
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Thelegalcodesecuring human rights and equality of treatment should be based upon consistent principles and be user-friendly.
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The second reason is that man likes to live under thelegalcodeto which he is accustomed.
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In those countries thelegalcodeis largely secular.
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It establishes alegalcode, as it were, for enforcement of the various decisions arrived at between the respective parties in the industrial field.
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It is the contents and the objectives of legislation which is important, not thelegalcodein which it is framed.
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