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See I'd argue that that's factually inaccurate and rhetorically misleading. There was a unified legal system in the sense that laws were known and agreed upon. They didn't have powdered wigs, the laws weren't numbered, and they didn't wear black a lot, so far as I know. That's a Western, colonial-point-of-view about the illegitimacy of the non-western-colonial-point-of-view. It's the same as "because I said so".
I think if you're looking to apply stated rules evenly, you'll need to mod your own community to get a sense of how that actually plays out. There are several undefinable elements you're not taking into account.
And for what it's worth, usually the comment threads die off in a day or so, there's not enough people commenting to keep it going much past that, so don't be surprised if you don't get a lot of replies to a post that's more than a day or two old.