Concept information
Preferred term
laws and regulations
Type
-
Topic
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Animal Welfare Act
- code of practice
- government deregulation
- Horse Protection Act
- Humane Methods of Slaughter Act
- legal agreements
- legal rights
- legal trusts
- market regulations
- National Environmental Policy Act
- ownership
- patents
- plant variety protection
- product labeling
- rural legislation
- standards and grades
- trade regulations
- Twenty-Eight Hour Law
Synonyms
- codes and ordinances
- constitution and law
- government regulations
- law and legislation
- legislation
- local codes and ordinances
- local ordinances
Scope note
- Includes all the rules of conduct (laws), collection of entitlements which a person may have that are protected by the government (rights), and other rules and administrative codes (regulations) which have been issued and approved by the government, which are in force over a certain territory and which must be obeyed by all persons on that territory.
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/5387
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