The law code, the most advanced development stage of law, is the main existence form of the law in modern society.
There was no absolute civil law code in ancient China, but we can find out factual civil legal criterion among a series of dispersive legal origins.
The law code of Hammurabi is available to us and there's a preface to it in which he basically explains why you should obey the rules that he now is laying down for you.
Still in many ways his law code, known as the Code of Hammurabi was a unique attempt to combine some of the ideas concerning justice held by his own people and the people he conquered and to create a uniform set of laws that might unite his Empire.
