legal code
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Definition(s):
- (n) a code of laws adopted by a state or nation
Usage(s):
- This is so even in a country like Egypt, where much of the legal code has been secularized.
- But those few who do take up the gun say it is their duty to destroy leaders and governments that fail to rule strictly by Shari'a, the Islamic legal code.
- The former paratrooper came to power as part of a 1989 military coup that introduced a strict Islamic legal code to Sudan.
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