If you come from a country that practises civil law (where a written legal code holds sway), then you must spend first spend a year getting a Master of Laws at an American university.

但是如果你来遵循自大陆法系的国家(即民法法系，以“成文法”为准则)，那么你就必须首先花费一年的时间来获得美国大学的法律硕士学位。

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Although we don't know much about Sumerian law, scholars agree that the Code of Hammurabi, written by a Babylonian monarch, reproduces Sumerian law fairly exactly.

虽然我们对苏美尔人的法律了解不多，学者们同意巴比伦君王书写的汉摩拉比的法令，公平的严密的复制了苏美尔人的法律。

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In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770-221 BC), written law was promulgated in China, and a systematic written code of laws appeared.

春秋战国时期(公元前770年-公元前221年)，中国开始制定成文法，出现了自成体系的成文法典。

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