What country has the longest set of laws on record?

Answer 1

I researched a lot and found that the United States is the country with the most laws on record. But I could not find out were the people, who stated that, got their evidence.

Answer 2

Without doing any research, a good guess would seem to be this: the largest developed country with a federal structure.

In a federal system, lawmaking authority is divided among multiple levels (federal, state, local). The lower-level governmental units are not only administrative agents, but make their own laws, although these may be called something else (e.g., ordinances, in the case of cities). In the U.S, there are thus more than 50,000 governments. The local governments (cities, towns, townships, counties, school districts and other special districts) are obviously the most numerous.

Legal complexity is a function of level of development. New technologies create new types of disputes and problems, and lead to new laws to address them. Consider e-communication and e-commerce, for example.

A larger population presumably requires a large number of local governments (unless there is a unitary, i.e., highly centralized, government).

Of course, the answer also depends on whether decicional law and agency regulations and rules are included within the scope of "laws on record."

Presumably the U.S. has the largest body of law (federal, state, and local), especially if judicial opinions are considered in addition to statutory law, not to mention administrative law made by government agencies and commissions.

Also note that the notion that laws can be counted is misguided.

Although laws are made in discrete units (bill->act), the enacted legislation is often incorporated into existing bodies of law known as codes. States may have separate codes for different subject matter, such as family, insurance, health, education, probate, business entities, and so on. These codes represent the never-final product of an ongoing process of repeal, addition, revision and modification by the legislature.

Similarly, while case law is made by appellate courts in discrete units, a single case often involves multiple legal issues and adds to, or changes an aspect of, the existing body of case law.

Answer 3

The oldest laws would probably be Japanese, they have been unified the longest, and there are probably some laws left over from the early days. If I had to venture other guesses I'd say:
England, Ireland, France, Italy, Israel, Spain, Germany, India, Saudi Arabia, or Egypt.

As to the most laws, the state of california does that by itself, take a look at the constitution of the state on wikipedia and see for yourself. If thats the constitution, imagine what they left out!

Answer 4

I would say the Magna Carta of England (King John in 1215).

Answer 5

the oldest laws on record are in the bible

Answer 6

I don't know!