Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
legal system
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, he also acknowledges that any actual legal system synthesizes the static and the dynamic principles.
▪ Legal principles tend to reflect the basic values that the legal system is committed to uphold.
▪ Parliament is all-powerful, the supreme authority within the legal system.
▪ The legal system is composed of people, and people err.
▪ The legal system should be stamping out vigilantes, not encouraging them.
▪ To cope with the massive increase in prosecutions, the paper even suggests revisions to the legal system to deal with offenders.
WordNet
legal system
n. a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws