The phrase "a legal code" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a systematic collection of laws or regulations that govern a particular area of law.
Example: "The new legislation was incorporated into the existing legal code to ensure consistency and clarity."
Alternatives: "a set of laws" or "a body of statutes".
They passed the time by reading aloud from a legal code.
In 1641, when the colonists established a legal code, the first capital crime was idolatry.
The military operates under a legal code, and it has judicial mechanisms".
But there is no mention of Shariah, a legal code based on the Koran.
One may think of it as a legal code for language; the other considers it a very partial report.
Accordingly, a legal code established by the Roman emperor Constantine in 332 demanded labour services to be paid to the lord by the coloni.
Far from being underinstitutionalized, we are bogged down with a bloated political system, a tangled tax code, a byzantine legal code and a crushing debt.
The legal guarantee of private autonomy in turn presupposes an established legal code and a legally defined status of equal citizenship in terms of actionable basic rights that secure a space for individual freedom.
In April, the writer asked Hasan Baswaid to do a story on a new legal code prohibiting torture and guaranteeing defendants the right to an attorney.
In the process he replaced a hierarchical society with a centralized bureaucracy and fighting force, a Muslim legal code, international trade arrangements, and a nascent network of roads and telecommunications.
To that may be added the creation of a common legal code, the issuance of a common currency as a symbol of imperial rule, the building of roads linking the empire (or trans-European networks, as they are unsmilingly called in Brussels).
