codification
Americannoun
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the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
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Law.
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the act, process, or result of stating the rules and principles applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life in this form of a code.
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the reducing of unwritten customs or case law to statutory form.
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noun
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systematic organization of methods, rules, etc
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law the collection into one body of the principles of a system of law
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With an eye to avoiding a peck of court trouble, Mr. Richberg therefore announced: "Codification should be limited to those trades and industries actually engaged in interstate commerce."
From Time Magazine Archive
Codification of child laws with establishment of child welfare department.
From The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox by Morris, Charles E.
This step was taken at that time because the Legislature had just appointed a Committee of Codification to consider the statutes bearing on domestic relations, contract powers, etc.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted
A summary of the detailed provisions concerning the law of fasting and of the exemptions granted to certain categories of people is contained in the Synopsis and Codification, section IV.B.1.-6.
From The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
Codification of Roman law by decemvirs under Justinian, 382.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
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