kram

sk क्रम krama, "serial order", "succession", "progress"; kh ក្រម kram, "order", "code" ; pa kama

kram: in middle period Cambodia, referred to proceeding, succession, order, justice, customary law, ordinance. "Cau krama" (IMA 30: 23-4), ‘head of law', judge, magistrate’.

Law codes were called kram, subsisting in modern times as in រាជក្រម reachkram: "royal code, royal edict". ក្រមការ kramkara, "order", "code of conduct", also meant "official, functionary" in middle period.