| Qualifier English: | legislation & jurisprudence | ||||
| Qualifier Spanish: | legislación & jurisprudencia 
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| Qualifier Portuguese: | legislação & jurisprudência | ||||
| Qualifier French: | législation et jurisprudence | ||||
| Entry term(s): | civil suits court decisions government regulations judicial aspects juridical aspects jurisprudence laws lawsuits legal aspects legislation and jurisprudence litigation medicolegal aspects ordinances regulations statutes | ||||
| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/Q000331 | ||||
| Scope note: | Used for laws, statutes, ordinances, or government regulations, as well as for legal controversy and court decisions. | ||||
| Annotation: | subheading only; includes "legal", "laws", "government regulations", "statutes", "ordinances", "medicolegal", "judicial", "juridical", "suits", "avoidance of suits", "litigation", "court decisions" | ||||
| Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||
| Online Note: | search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/LJ or LJ (SH) or SUBS APPLY LJ | ||||
| History Note: | 78; used with Category I1-2 & N2-4 1978-87; I1-2, L, N2-4 & SMOKING 1988; G2-3, I1-2, L, N2-4 & SMOKING+ 1989; G1-2, I2-3 & N2-4 1990 forward | ||||
| Entry Version: | LEGIS | ||||
| Abbreviation: | LJ | ||||
| DeCS ID: | 22041 | ||||
| Unique ID: | Q000331 | ||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||
| Date Established: | 1978/01/01 | ||||
| Date of Entry: | 1977/05/16 | ||||
| Revision Date: | 2017/04/11 | 
                        
                                                                    
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                | Concept UI | M0030527 | 
| Scope note | Used for laws, statutes, ordinances, or government regulations, as well as for legal controversy and court decisions. | 
| Preferred term | legislation & jurisprudence | 
| Entry term(s) | legislation and jurisprudence | 
| Concept UI | M0030528 | 
| Preferred term | court decisions | 
| Concept UI | M0030529 | 
| Preferred term | government regulations | 
| Concept UI | M0030536 | 
| Preferred term | judicial aspects | 
| Concept UI | M0030537 | 
| Preferred term | juridical aspects | 
| Concept UI | M0030541 | 
| Preferred term | statutes | 
| Concept UI | M0030538 | 
| Preferred term | lawsuits | 
| Concept UI | M0030531 | 
| Preferred term | legal aspects | 
| Entry term(s) | jurisprudence | 
| Concept UI | M0030533 | 
| Preferred term | litigation | 
| Concept UI | M0030539 | 
| Preferred term | medicolegal aspects | 
| Concept UI | M0030540 | 
| Preferred term | ordinances | 
| Concept UI | M0030534 | 
| Preferred term | regulations | 
| Concept UI | M0030535 | 
| Preferred term | civil suits | 
| Concept UI | M0030530 | 
| Preferred term | laws | 
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