51.   English common law will continue as the legal code, separate from Chinese law.

52.   Hong Kong is to keep its legal code and freedoms under a semiautonomous government and home-grown leader, and Xiong stressed that the separation would be respected.

53.   However, according to the Taiwanese legal code, with the privacy case against Tsai dropped, the case against Kuo is also dropped.

54.   Illegal entry into China can be punished by up to a year in prison, according to the Chinese legal code.

55.   In practice, Russia has suspended carrying out death sentences although capital punishment remains part of the legal code.

56.   In Singapore, renowned for its strict legal code, firework traffickers risk two years in jail and six strokes of a cane.

57.   In the areas under its control, the Taliban militia has imposed a harsh legal code based on Afghan tradition and the Islamic holy book, the Koran.

58.   It governs every aspect of life -- politics, social conduct, legal code, religious rituals and relations with other religions.

59.   Its legal code came from France, Italy and Switzerland.

60.   Legal codes adapted from Western European countries, Islamic attire officially outlawed, and Latin alphabet replaced Arabic script.