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<p>A <b>code of law</b>, also called a <b>law code</b> or <b>legal code</b>, is a systematic collection of <a href="page.php?w=statute">statute</a>s. 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 <a href="page.php?w=Codification_%28law%29">codification</a>. Though the process and motivations for codification are similar in different <a href="page.php?w=Common_law">common law</a> and <a href="page.php?w=civil_law_%28legal_system%29">civil law</a></p><p>
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