Lastly, jurors are required to decide on the liability of a defendant by expressing their judgments on the conditions prescribed by the relevant code of law for the case at hand.
If the bible is a code of laws for man, then Kabbalah is the attempt to work out the laws by which God created and governs the universe.
The codification of law was one of Bentham's chief preoccupations, and it was his ambition to be allowed to prepare a code of laws for his own or some foreign country.
Xiao recommended the removal of the capital to Chang'an (near present-day Xi'an) and drew up a code of laws for the new Han dynasty that would greatly influence later lawmakers.
The Code of Laws for the state of South Carolina says that a person has committed third-degree assault and battery if they have attempted to injure someone and have the "present ability to do so".
The Nigerian legal and judicial system contains three codes of law: customary law, Nigerian statute law (following English law), and Sharīʿah (Islamic law).
Hammurabi is known for the set of laws called Hammurabi's Code, one of the first written codes of law in recorded history.
Similar codes of law were created in several nearby civilizations, including the earlier Mesopotamian examples of Ur-Nammu's code, Laws of Eshnunna, and Code of Lipit-Ishtar, and the later Hittite code of laws.
The Espéculo, a code of law intended for use in the royal court, and the Fuero Real, a code of municipal law meant for the towns of Castile and Extremadura, were drawn up and likely promulgated in 1254.
With such documents as the Mayflower Compact (1620) and the Body of Liberties (1641), an early code of law, they provided the basis for the concept that governments should rule by consent of the governed and with guarantees to protect individual expression.
