Under the code, each country would be allowed to meet its own environmental standards.

"They are legal under the code that your government and many others signed."

Women, for example, lost most of their newly gained rights under the new code.

Local elections were held under the 1942 municipal code, which was in force until 1947.

Espionage is a crime under the legal code of many nations.

Under the code, women had to practice obedience to their husbands.

"By ordinary standards, this will never be a settlement world under the code."

He was the last man executed under the penal code.

But they all contain particular elements that would have been unacceptable under the code.

That is beginning to change as new structures are built under the seismic code, which took effect in 1996.