The body of rules, whether proceeding from formal enactment or from custom, which a particular state or community recognizes as binding on its…

= body, n. 8 12a 12b: Collective whole or mass; the substance, main portion, bulk, or sum; body (of law, science, etc.) corps of law = corpus juris…

gen. A complete body of the laws of a country, or of any system of law (natural or statutory). Also in plural. Now rare.

A system or body of law; a legal system.

Enactments of a legislator or legislature (esp. when addressing a particular area of concern). Also: the whole body of enacted laws.

corpus delicti (see quot. 1859); also, in lay use, the concrete evidence of a crime, esp. the body of a murdered person. corpus juris: a body of law…

gen. corps diplomatique/kɔr diplɔmatik/: the body of ambassadors, attachés, etc. accredited to a particular Court or Capital; the diplomatic corps…

= adversarial system n. at adversarial, adj. compounds.