Legislation that purports to cover a complete system of laws
This article is about exhaustive legislations. For municipal regulations, see legal code (municipal). For the television series, see Code of Law (TV series).
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] Though the process and motivations for codification are similar in different common law and civil law systems, their usage is different.
In a civil law country, a code of law typically exhaustively covers the complete system of law, such as civil law or criminal law.[further explanation needed]
By contrast, in a common law country with legislative practices in the English tradition, codes modify the existing common law only to the extent of its express or implicit provision, but otherwise leaves the common law intact. In the United States 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.
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Code" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 632–634.
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