codification
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
Codification contemplates, implies and produces continuity of existing law in clarified form rather than its interruption.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - United States v. Grainger, 346 U.S. 235 (1953).
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The process of collecting and arranging the laws of a country or state into a code, i. e., into a complete system of positive law, scientifically ordered, and promulgated by legislative authority.
Defined under Code in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The process of collecting and arranging the laws ol a country or state into a code, z. ¢., into a complete system of positive law, scientilically ordered, and prowulgated by legislative authority,