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Legal codes

Building code
Set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures
Civil procedure
Body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits I
Code of Hammurabi
Babylonian legal text
Codification (law)
Process of collecting and restating certain area of law forming a legal code
Corpus Juris Civilis
Collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence as codified by Justinian
Draconian constitution
Law code created by Draco in the late 7th century BCE in response to the abuse of oral law by Athenian aristocrats
Fire safety
Practices intended to reduce the destruction caused by fire
Napoleonic Code
French civil code established in 1804
United States Code
Codification of U.S. federal statutes