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Designates the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties
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For publications about actual laws, use legislation; for publications that are texts of laws, codes of law or statute books, use 'laws (form)'
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criminal law
international law
maritime law
private law
public law
Related terms
codification
equity of law
judicial system
philosophy of law
reception of foreign law
unification of law
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10.01 LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS GENERAL
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