system of laws

A system of laws is an organized and coherent set of rules and principles established by an authority to regulate behavior, resolve disputes, and maintain order within a society.

Aliases (19)

• common law system ×2
• law code ×2
• French legal code ×1
• French revolutionary law ×1
• Normative system ×1
• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth law ×1
• System of rules ×1
• body of judge-made law ×1
• branch of Scots law ×1
• collection of customary law ×1
• collection of laws ×1
• imperial law ×1
• jurisdictional legal framework ×1
• law of Puerto Rico ×1
• legal system of racial control ×1
• national legal system ×1
• part of the Napoleonic Code ×1
• primary body of criminal law in Puerto Rico ×1
• set of legal rules ×1

Instances (22)

• rules of evidence for the federal courts ("set of legal rules")
• Black Codes ("legal system of racial control")
• English law ("common law system")
• Code Louis (legal ordinances associated with his reign) ("French legal code")
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy ("French revolutionary law")
• Scots civil law ("branch of Scots law")
• Peace of Augsburg ("imperial law")
• Puerto Rico Penal Code ("primary body of criminal law in Puerto Rico")
• Codex Justinianus ("law code")
• Novellae Constitutiones ("collection of laws")
• Book II: Of Property and the Different Modifications of Ownership ("part of the Napoleonic Code")
• Jim Crow laws
• Egyptian law ("national legal system")
• Law of the District of Columbia ("jurisdictional legal framework")
• Organic Act of the Judiciary of Puerto Rico ("law of Puerto Rico")
• Constitution of 3 May 1791 (adopted by the Four-Year Sejm) ("Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth law")
• Law ("Normative system")
• Gutalagen ("law code")
• Usatges de Barcelona ("collection of customary law")
• Common law of New South Wales ("body of judge-made law")
• Singapore law ("common law system")