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
But in this, as in other branches of law, France seems to have paid the penalty for having been first in the field with codification by lagging behind in material reforms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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