legal code
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Judge Daniel M. Crowley called Jonasson’s argument “untenable” and in conflict with the intention of the state’s legal code in his dismissal document.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Legislation I am introducing with Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly will bring our legal code into the 21st century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
Not to King Louis XIII, who formerly authorized the slave trade in 1642, or his son, the Sun King, who introduced slavery’s legal code, both of whose remains are buried inside the gothic building.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
From the start, defense lawyers have asserted that the Vatican City State’s legal code has deprived their clients of basic rights afforded defendants in other modern countries.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
In the case of Peugeot SA the crucial story was the French legal code, as written by the French parliament.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
