Code

i A reduction and revision of the law and procedure of a political communitj', upon one or more general subjects, and the enactment of this new, systematized statement as one statute. An enactment of a more or less complete system of law, or of procedure, or of both law and procedure, upon one or more general subjects.

Codifleation

The act or process of reducing all the law upon one or more general subjects to a code. The reduction of the existing law to an orderly written system, freed from the needless technicalities, obscurities, and other defects which the experience of its administration has disclosed.2 Codify. To reduce to the form of a code. Uncodified: not reduced to a code.

Codifler.

One who makes or assists in making a code. " A code ought to be based upon the principle that it aims at nothing more than the reduction to a definite and systematic shape of the results obtained and sanctioned by the experience of many centuries.^ The codes of New York have been the most celebrated and influential in this country. In that State the work of codification began under the constitution of 1846. Commissioners reported as complete the codes of Civil and Criminal Procedure in 1850, the Political 'Code in 1859, the Penal Code in 1864, and the Civil Code in 1865. Each of these has since been revised. The code of Civil Procedure, with some changes, has been adopted in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Dakota, Idaho. Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming; and the code of Criminal Procedure, in Arizona, Arkans£ts, California, Dakota, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. California and Dakota have also adopted the substance of tjie other three codes. Other States have partial revisions or consolidations sometimes called " codes." The New York codes are said to have also had an influence in framing the system adopted in England by the Judieatm-e Act of 1873.« In 1883 a codification of civil and criminal statutes was adopted in Alabama; a code of civil procedure in 1 F. code; L. codex^ a tablet, a. book. Codify, codifler, and codification are pronounced cod' —. 2 3 Stephen, Hist. Cr. L. Eng. 351. ' Mr. Justice Stephen. ■■See 19 Alb. Law J. 193 (1879)— David Dudley Field; Connecticut; and a civil code in Virginia, taking effect January 1, 1888. A large portion of the modern codes is but declaratory of the common law as expounded by the courts.' A code is a general collection or compilation of laws by public authority; a collection and compilation of general statutes.. The rule is, that when a statute is revised, or when one statute is framed from another, some parts being omitted, the parts so omitted are annulled. It must be presumed that the legislature has declared its entire will.^

See Revise.