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codify Definition

codi·fy (kädə fī′, kōdə-)

transitive verb -·fied′, -·fy′·ing

to arrange (laws, rules, etc.) systematically

Etymology: cod(e) + -i- + -fy

codify Related Forms
cod′i·fi·ca·tion (--fi kās̸hən) noun codi·fi′er (--fī′ər) noun
codify Synonyms

codify

v.

systematize, classify, arrange; see classify, order 3.

codify Law Definition

v

  1. To arrange, compile, organize, and systematize into a code the statutes, or the entire body of law (including case law) of a country or state or the statutes or the body of law concerning a particular area of the law.
  2. To enact a statute that restates the body of a particular area of law including applicable common law principles and the judicial interpretation of previous or existing statutes. See also statute.
codify Usage Examples

Object

  • constitution: The implications of the Human Rights Act were not noticed because we do not have a codified constitution.
  • convention: That factor alone is a powerful argument for codifying the convention now.
  • law: I'd move our justice system closer to the continental system of codified law.
  • principle: It codifies the essential principles of the Moral Law, of which the remains are in man's heart.
  • knowledge: A pattern codifies specific knowledge collected from experience in a domain.
  • rule: Nothing could be clearer than that moral law is codified rules of social conduct.

Preposition: into

  • law: The Panamanian Foundation structure was codified into law in 1995.

Modifying Another Word

  • fully: Some would say all of these reforms are leading eventually, or could lead, to a fully codified, fully written constitution.
  • then: These ideas are then codified in a Self Assessment Document ( SAD ) which is sent to the review team ahead of time.
  • first: The hounds are judged one against the other by a system of points first codified in the 16 th century.
  • not: They are often taken for granted, especially in this country where they are not codified in a written constitution.
  • highly: Are not the highly codified racist values of the USA not Western.
  • merely: These changes in fact merely codified what had already been unofficial practice for some time.

Used with why or when

  • what: These changes in fact merely codified what had already been unofficial practice for some time.

Present participle complement

  • exist: The FRS codifies existing practice and aims to improve the consistency in the accounting treatment of tangible fixed assets.

Preposition: in

  • law: These are now codified in the commercial law common throughout the European Union.
  • language: Those grammars claim to describe national standard languages, which are codified in written language.
  • document: Brown My point is that there is a founding ideal; it is just not codified in any one document.
  • statute: The government has also accepted the review's recommendations that director's duties should be codified in statute.
  • constitution: They are often taken for granted, especially in this country where they are not codified in a written constitution.

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