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Justinian's code eventually became the basis for the legals systems of most modern European countries ! "D.M"
No country uses the Code of Hammurabi as their primary way of enforcing laws today. The code was enforced in Ancient Babylon @ 1760 B.C. by the King of Babylon Hammurabi.
Originally, there was no code of ethics specifically for knights. During the High Middle Ages, however, the Code of Chivalry was formulated to govern the conduct of knights. It required knights to be honorable, loyal, merciful, and honest. It also required knights to protect people who were poor or unable to protect themselves, especially women and children.
It made Roman civil law the civil law of, or the foundation of civil law in most western countries. It was not a code of laws and was not called Justinian code either. It was called Corpus Iuris Civilis (body of civil laws) and a collection of books (codex meant book, not code) with a massive compendium of Roman laws since tie times of Hadrian, a collection of assays and a student textbook.
The British pound (symbol: '£', code: 'GBP') is used in the United Kingdom and most of its overseas territories.