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In the Americas, the influence of Continental legal codes has manifest itself in two ways. In civil law jurisdictions, legal codes in the Continental tradition are common. In common law jurisdictions, however, there has been a strong trend towards codification. The result of such codification,
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and other common law countries that have adopted similar legislative practices, a code of law is a standing body of statute law on a particular area, which is added to, subtracted from, or otherwise modified by individual legislative enactments.
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of Justinian, also known as the Justinian Code (429–534 AD). However, these law codes did not exhaustively describe the Roman legal system. The Twelve Tables were limited in scope, and most legal doctrines were developed by the
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is a common feature in many legal systems. Codification of the criminal law allows the criminal law to be more accessible and more democratically made and amended.
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The Continental civil law tradition spread around the world along with European cultural and military dominance in recent centuries. During the
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civilizations developed their own legal traditions, sometimes codifying them through consistent oral tradition, as illustrated e.g. by the
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The legal code was a common feature of the legal systems of the ancient Middle East. Tablets discovered in the ancient city of
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In a civil law country, a code of law typically exhaustively covers the complete system of law, such as civil law or
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in 1222–1236, enumerating regulations in both constitutional and civil matters, and transmitted to this day by
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largely codifies common law doctrine and is very different in form and content from all other civil codes.
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however, is not always a legal code as found in civil law jurisdictions. For example, the
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systems. The legal code typically covers exhaustively the entire system of private law.
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This article is about exhaustive legislations. For municipal regulations, see
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government abandoned the imperial code tradition and instead adopted a new
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until well into the 1970s due to a peculiar interaction between it and the
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By contrast, in a common law country with legislative practices in the
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Legislation that purports to cover a complete system of laws
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is found in a number of common law jurisdictions in
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List of ancient legal codes
Ebla
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Code of Ur-Nammu
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Code of Lipit-Ishtar
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Mesopotamia
Iraq
Roman empire
Twelve Tables
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pontifices
China
Tang Code
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