local law

local law
lo·cal law n
1 a: a law limited in application to a particular district within a territory – called also local act; compare general law, public law
2: the laws and legal principles and rules of a state other than those concerned with conflicts of law

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

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Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006

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