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
Other Word Forms
- recodification noun
Etymology
Origin of codification
Example Sentences
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He praises Texas’s codification of the business-judgment rule, and for good reason: Delaware developed that doctrine generations ago, and its courts have consistently treated it as a bedrock principle of corporate law.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
With pilot beaver relocations and the codification of the restoration project, California is pushing back against that history and the Supreme Court’s dangerous shortsightedness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025
“We are issuing this code, which largely represents a codification of principles that we have long regarded as governing our conduct,” the justices said in a statement.
From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2023
To dispel this misunderstanding, we are issuing this Code, which largely represents a codification of principles that we have long regarded as governing our conduct.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2023
The codification of civil and penal law had not yet been begun.
From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
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