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Definition
Legal regimen of a country consisting of (1) a written or oral constitution, (2) primary legislation (statutes) enacted by the legislative body established by the constitution, (3) subsidiary legislation (bylaws) made by person or bodies authorized by the primary legislation to do so, (4) customs applied by the courts on the basis of traditional practices, and (5) principles or practices of civil, common, Roman, or other code of law.
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legal system is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law subject.
legal system appears in the definitions of the following terms:
jurisprudence,
common law,
shari'a,
Isle of Man,
felony,
foreclosure order,
procedural law,
law of the land,
simple contract,
substantive law
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