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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-International_law_codification" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#International_law_codification"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>International law codification</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-International_law_codification-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Canon_law_codification" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Canon_law_codification"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Canon law codification</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Canon_law_codification-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Recodification" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodifikasi" title="Kodifikasi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kodifikasi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codificazione" title="Codificazione – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Codificazione" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%94" title="קודיפיקציה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קודיפיקציה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Кодификация – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Кодификация" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normat%C4%ABvo_aktu_sistematiz%C4%81cija" title="Normatīvo aktu sistematizācija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Normatīvo aktu sistematizācija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodifikacija" title="Kodifikacija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kodifikacija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodifik%C3%A1ci%C3%B3" title="Kodifikáció – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kodifikáció" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codificatie" title="Codificatie – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Codificatie" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B3%95%E5%85%B8%E5%8C%96" title="法典化 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="法典化" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodifisering" title="Kodifisering – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Kodifisering" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodifisering" title="Kodifisering – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Kodifisering" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codificacion_(drech)" title="Codificacion 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searchaux" style="display:none">Process of collecting and restating certain area of law forming a legal code</div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a>, <b>codification</b> is the process of collecting and restating the law of a <a href="/wiki/Jurisdiction" title="Jurisdiction">jurisdiction</a> in certain areas, usually by subject, forming a <a href="/wiki/Legal_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal code">legal code</a>, i.e. a <a href="/wiki/Codex" title="Codex">codex</a> (<a href="/wiki/Book" title="Book">book</a>) of law. </p><p>Codification is one of the <a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)#Codification" title="Civil law (legal system)">defining features</a> of <a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)" title="Civil law (legal system)">civil law</a> jurisdictions.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)#Differentiation_from_other_major_legal_systems" title="Civil law (legal system)"><span title="This 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(May 2019)">contradictory</span></a></i>]</sup> In <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a> systems, such as that of <a href="/wiki/English_law" title="English law">English law</a>, codification is the process of converting and consolidating <a href="/wiki/Judge-made_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Judge-made law">judge-made law</a> or uncodified statutes enacted by the <a href="/wiki/Legislature" title="Legislature">legislature</a> into <a href="/wiki/Statute_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Statute law">statute law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ancient <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumer</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu" title="Code of Ur-Nammu">Code of Ur-Nammu</a> was compiled <i>circa</i> 2050–1230 BC, and is the earliest known surviving <a href="/wiki/Civil_code" title="Civil code">civil code</a>. Three centuries later, the <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonian</a> king <a href="/wiki/Hammurabi" title="Hammurabi">Hammurabi</a> enacted the <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi" title="Code of Hammurabi">set of laws named after him</a>. </p><p>Important codifications were developed in the ancient <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>, with the compilations of the <i><a href="/wiki/Twelve_Tables" title="Twelve Tables">Lex Duodecim Tabularum</a></i> and much later the <i><a href="/wiki/Corpus_Juris_Civilis" title="Corpus Juris Civilis">Corpus Juris Civilis</a></i>. These codified laws were the exceptions rather than the rule, however, as during much of ancient times <a href="/wiki/Roman_law" title="Roman law">Roman laws</a> were left mostly uncodified. </p><p>The first <i>permanent</i> system of codified laws could be found in <a href="/wiki/Imperial_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial China">imperial China</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the compilation of the <i><a href="/wiki/Tang_Code" title="Tang Code">Tang Code</a></i> in AD 624. This formed the basis of the Chinese <a href="/wiki/Criminal_law" title="Criminal law">criminal code</a>, which was eventually replaced by the <i><a href="/wiki/Great_Qing_Legal_Code" title="Great Qing Legal Code">Great Qing Legal Code</a></i>, which was in turn abolished in 1912 following the <a href="/wiki/Xinhai_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Xinhai Revolution">Xinhai Revolution</a> and the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949)" title="Republic of China (1912–1949)">Republic of China</a>. The new <a href="/wiki/Law_of_the_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Law of the Republic of China">laws of the Republic of China</a> were inspired by the German codified work, the <a href="/wiki/B%C3%BCrgerliches_Gesetzbuch" title="Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch">Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch</a>. A very influential example in Europe was the French <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleonic code">Napoleonic code</a> of 1804. </p><p>Upon confederation, the <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a> created constitutional <a href="/wiki/Wampum" title="Wampum">wampum</a>, each component symbolizing one of the many laws within the 117 articles. The union of the five original nations occurred in 1142,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its unification narrative served the basis for the Iroquois laws.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Systems of religious laws include the <a href="/wiki/Halakha" title="Halakha">halakha</a> of Judaism and the <i>sharia</i> of Islam. The use of civil codes in <i><a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">sharia</a></i> began with the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> in the 19th century. American legal scholar <a href="/wiki/Noah_Feldman" title="Noah Feldman">Noah Feldman</a> has written that the Ottoman codification of the sharia reduced the power of the religious scholarly class, upsetting the <a href="/wiki/Balance_of_powers" class="mw-redirect" title="Balance of powers">balance of powers</a> and the traditional <a href="/wiki/Uncodified_constitution" title="Uncodified constitution">uncodified constitution</a> of Islamic societies and leading to the rise of <a href="/wiki/Autocrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Autocrat">autocrats</a> unconstrained by <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Feldman_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feldman-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Legal_history" title="Legal history">Legal history</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civil_law_jurisdictions">Civil law jurisdictions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Civil law jurisdictions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)" title="Civil law (legal system)">Civil law (legal system)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)" title="Civil law (legal system)">Civil law</a> jurisdictions rely, <a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)#Codification" title="Civil law (legal system)">by definition</a>, on codification. Notable early examples were the <a href="/wiki/Statutes_of_Lithuania" title="Statutes of Lithuania">Statutes of Lithuania</a>, in the 16th century. The movement towards codification gained momentum during the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a>, and was implemented in several European countries during the late 18th century (see <a href="/wiki/Civil_code" title="Civil code">civil code</a>). However, it became widespread only after the enactment of the French <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Code" title="Napoleonic Code">Napoleonic Code</a> (1804), which has heavily influenced the legal systems of many other countries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Common_law_jurisdictions">Common law jurisdictions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Common law jurisdictions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">Common law</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">Common law</a> has been codified in many jurisdictions and in many areas of law: examples include <a href="/wiki/Criminal_code" title="Criminal code">criminal codes</a> in many jurisdictions, and include the <a href="/wiki/California_Civil_Code" title="California Civil Code">California Civil Code</a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_Laws_of_New_York" title="Consolidated Laws of New York">Consolidated Laws of New York</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/New_York_State" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State">New York State</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="England_and_Wales">England and Wales</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: England and Wales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The English judge <a href="/wiki/Sir_Mackenzie_Chalmers" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Mackenzie Chalmers">Sir Mackenzie Chalmers</a> is renowned as the draftsman of the <a href="/wiki/Bills_of_Exchange_Act_1882" title="Bills of Exchange Act 1882">Bills of Exchange Act 1882</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sale_of_Goods_Act_1893" title="Sale of Goods Act 1893">Sale of Goods Act 1893</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Marine_Insurance_Act_1906" title="Marine Insurance Act 1906">Marine Insurance Act 1906</a>, all of which codified existing <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a> principles. The Sale of Goods Act was repealed and re-enacted by the <a href="/wiki/Sale_of_Goods_Act_1979" title="Sale of Goods Act 1979">Sale of Goods Act 1979</a> in a manner that revealed how sound the 1893 original had been.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Marine Insurance Act (mildly amended) has been a notable success, adopted <i>verbatim</i> in many common law jurisdictions. </p><p>Most of England's <a href="/wiki/Criminal_law" title="Criminal law">criminal laws</a> have been codified, partly because this enables precision and certainty in prosecution. However, large areas of the common law, such as the <a href="/wiki/Law_of_contract" class="mw-redirect" title="Law of contract">law of contract</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Law_of_tort" class="mw-redirect" title="Law of tort">law of tort</a> remain remarkably untouched. In the last 80 years there have been statutes that address immediate problems, such as the <a href="/wiki/Law_Reform_(Frustrated_Contracts)_Act_1943" title="Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943">Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943</a> (which, <i>inter alia</i>, coped with contracts rendered void by war), and the <a href="/wiki/Contracts_(Rights_of_Third_Parties)_Act_1999" title="Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999">Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999</a>, which amended the <a href="/wiki/Privity_of_contract" title="Privity of contract">doctrine of privity</a>. However, there has been no progress on the adoption of <a href="/wiki/Harvey_McGregor" title="Harvey McGregor">Harvey McGregor</a>'s <i>Contract Code</i> (1993), even though the <a href="/wiki/Law_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Law Commission">Law Commission</a>, together with the Scots Law Commission, asked him to produce a proposal for the comprehensive codification and unification of the contract law of England and Scotland. Similarly, codification in the law of tort has been at best piecemeal, a rare example of progress being the <a href="/wiki/Law_Reform_(Contributory_Negligence)_Act_1945" title="Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945">Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Consolidation_bill" title="Consolidation bill">Consolidation bills</a> are routinely passed to organize the law. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ireland">Ireland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Law_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Law of the Republic of Ireland">Law of the Republic of Ireland</a> evolved from <a href="/wiki/English_law" title="English law">English law</a>, the greatest point of difference being the existence of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Ireland" title="Constitution of Ireland">Constitution of Ireland</a> as a single document. The unofficial "popular edition" of the Constitution is regularly updated to take account of <a href="/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_Ireland" title="Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland">amendments to it</a>, while the official text enrolled in the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Ireland" title="Supreme Court of Ireland">Supreme Court</a> in 1938 has been replaced five times: in 1942, 1980, 1989, 1999, and 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-sc2020_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc2020-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As in England, subordinate laws are not officially codified, although <a href="/wiki/Consolidation_bill" title="Consolidation bill">consolidation bills</a> have restated the law in many areas. Since 2006 the <a href="/wiki/Law_Reform_Commission_(Ireland)" title="Law Reform Commission (Ireland)">Law Reform Commission</a> (LRC) has published semi-official "revised" editions of <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_the_Oireachtas" class="mw-redirect" title="Acts of the Oireachtas">Acts of the Oireachtas</a> taking account of textual and other amendments to the original version.<sup id="cite_ref-lrc-ie_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lrc-ie-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Finance_Act" title="Finance Act">Finance Acts</a> are excluded from the LRC programme.<sup id="cite_ref-lrc-ie_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lrc-ie-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Private companies produce unofficial consolidated versions of these and other commercially important pre-2005 laws. An official advisory committee between 2006 and 2010 produced a Draft Criminal Code.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_early_codification_movement">The early codification movement</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The early codification movement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the United States, a critique of the inherited English tradition of <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a> and an argument for systematic codification was championed by the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_United_Irishmen" title="Society of United Irishmen">United Irish</a> exiles <a href="/wiki/William_Sampson_(lawyer)" title="William Sampson (lawyer)">William Sampson</a> (admitted to the New York bar in 1806),<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/William_Duane_(journalist)" title="William Duane (journalist)">William Duane</a> publisher of the Jeffersonian paper, the <i><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Aurora" title="Philadelphia Aurora">Philadelphia Aurora</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1810, Sampson published <i>Trial of the Journeymen Cordwainers of the City of New-York for a Conspiracy to Raise Their Wages,</i><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> commentary on his (unsuccessful) argument in <i>The People v Melvin</i> (1806) to quash an indictment of illegal worker combination. Insisting on the supremacy of the elected legislature, Sampson's objected that the prosecution was reasoning "abstractedly" from principles of English common law without any reference to statute. It was this, alone, that allowed them to deny journeymen the right to "conspire against starvation" while, without notice or challenge, leaving master tradesmen in a "permanent conspiracy" to suppress wages.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He went on to argue that an "indiscriminating adoption of common law" had caused the <a href="/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New-World</a> society to carry over "barbarities" from the Old: laws that "can only be executed upon those not favoured by fortune with certain privileges" and that in some cases operate "entirely against the poor".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sampson's summary <i>Discourse on the Common Law</i> (1823),<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> holding common law to be contrary to the ethos a democratic republic and urging, with reference to the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Code" title="Napoleonic Code">Code Napoleon</a>, its replacement by a general law of reference, was hailed as "the most sweeping indictment of common law idealism ever written in America" .<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was a source of inspiration for <a href="/wiki/Edward_Livingston" title="Edward Livingston">Edward Livingston</a><sup id="cite_ref-Subrin_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Subrin-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who drew upon French, and other European, civil law in drafting the 1825 Louisiana Code of Procedure.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, Sampson's efforts appeared vindicated in New York where in 1846 a new <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_New_York" title="Constitution of New York">state constitution</a> directed that the whole body of state law be reduced to a written and systematic code, and in <a href="/wiki/David_Dudley_Field_II" title="David Dudley Field II">David Dudley Field</a>'s subsequent drafting of the New York Code of Civil Procedure (1848).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sampson sought to disassociate codification from the doctrinaire insistence on positive legislation that had marked <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham" title="Jeremy Bentham">Jeremy Bentham</a>'s championing of the cause in Britain. But, focussing on the French experience, critics thought it sufficient to comment on the futility of trying to compress human behaviour into rigid categories.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> President <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> had remained neutral when Duane's attempted to force the issue in the 1805 election in Pennsylvania. Federalists joined with "Constitutional Republicans" to defeat the reform agenda.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Present_status">Present status</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Present status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">United States Code</a> and <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations" title="Code of Federal Regulations">Code of Federal Regulations</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Statutory">Statutory</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Statutory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the United States, <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress" title="Act of Congress">acts of Congress</a>, such as federal statutes, are published chronologically in the order in which they become law – often by being signed by the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a>, on an individual basis in official pamphlets called "<a href="/wiki/Slip_law" title="Slip law">slip laws</a>", and are grouped together in official bound book form, also chronologically, as "<a href="/wiki/Session_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Session law">session laws</a>". The "session law" publication for Federal statutes is called the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large" title="United States Statutes at Large">United States Statutes at Large</a>. A given act may be a single page or hundreds of pages in length. An act may be classified as either a "Public Law" or a "Private Law". </p><p>Because each Congressional act may contain laws on a variety of topics, many acts, or portions thereof, are also rearranged and published in a topical, subject matter codification by the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_Law_Revision_Counsel" title="Office of the Law Revision Counsel">Office of the Law Revision Counsel</a>. The official codification of Federal statutes is called the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">United States Code</a>. Generally, only "Public Laws" are codified. The United States Code is divided into "titles" (based on overall topics) numbered 1 through 54.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Title_18_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 18 of the United States Code">Title 18</a>, for example, contains many of the Federal criminal statutes. Title 26 is the <a href="/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code" title="Internal Revenue Code">Internal Revenue Code</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Even in code form, however, many statutes by their nature pertain to more than one topic. For example, the statute making <a href="/wiki/Tax_avoidance_and_tax_evasion" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax avoidance and tax evasion">tax evasion</a> a felony pertains to both criminal law and tax law, but is found only in the Internal Revenue Code.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other statutes pertaining to taxation are found not in the Internal Revenue Code but instead, for example, in the Bankruptcy Code in <a href="/wiki/Title_11_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 11 of the United States Code">Title 11 of the United States Code</a>, or the Judiciary Code in <a href="/wiki/Title_28_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 28 of the United States Code">Title 28</a>. Another example is the national minimum drinking age, not found in <a href="/wiki/Title_27_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 27 of the United States Code">Title 27</a>, <i>Intoxicating liquors</i>, but in <a href="/wiki/Title_23_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 23 of the United States Code">Title 23</a>, <i>Highways</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/23/158.html">§158</a>. </p><p>Further, portions of some Congressional acts, such as the provisions for the effective dates of amendments to codified laws, are themselves not codified at all. These statutes may be found by referring to the acts as published in "slip law" and "session law" form. However, commercial publications that specialize in legal materials often arrange and print the uncodified statutes with the codes to which they pertain. </p><p>In the United States, the individual states, either officially or through private commercial publishers, generally follow the same three-part model for the publication of their own statutes: slip law, session law, and codification. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Regulatory">Regulatory</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Regulatory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rules and regulations that are promulgated by agencies of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States#Executive_branch" title="Federal government of the United States">Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government</a> are published in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Register" title="Federal Register">Federal Register</a> and codified in the <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations" title="Code of Federal Regulations">Code of Federal Regulations</a>. These regulations are authorized by specific legislation passed by the legislative branch, and generally have the same force as statutory law. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_law_codification">International law codification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: International law codification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">International law</a></div> <p>Following the First World War and the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a>, the need for codification of international law arose. In September 1924, the General Assembly of the League established a committee of experts for the purpose of codification of international law, which was defined by the Assembly as consisting of two aspects: </p> <ul><li>Putting existing customs into written <a href="/wiki/Treaty" title="Treaty">international agreements</a></li> <li>Developing further rules</li></ul> <p>In 1930 the League of Nations held at the Hague a <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations_Codification_Conference,_1930" title="League of Nations Codification Conference, 1930">conference</a> for the purpose of codification of rules on general matters, but very little progress was made. </p><p>Following the Second World War, the <a href="/wiki/International_Law_Commission" title="International Law Commission">International Law Commission</a> was established within the United Nations as a permanent body for the formulation of principles in international law.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Canon_law_codification">Canon law codification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Canon law codification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/1917_Code_of_Canon_Law" title="1917 Code of Canon Law">1917 Code of Canon Law</a> and <a href="/wiki/Legal_history_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Legal history of the Catholic Church">Legal history of the Catholic Church</a></div> <p>Papal attempts at codification of the scattered mass of canon law spanned the eight centuries since <a href="/wiki/Gratian_(jurist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gratian (jurist)">Gratian</a> produced his <i><a href="/wiki/Decretum_Gratiani" title="Decretum Gratiani">Decretum</a></i> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1150</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-BenedictXV204_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BenedictXV204-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 13th century especially canon law became the object of scientific study, and different compilations were made by the Roman Pontiffs. The most important of these were the five books of the <i><a href="/wiki/Decretales_Gregorii_IX" class="mw-redirect" title="Decretales Gregorii IX">Decretales Gregorii IX</a></i> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Liber_Sextus" class="mw-redirect" title="Liber Sextus">Liber Sextus</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Pope_Boniface_VIII" title="Pope Boniface VIII">Boniface VIII</a>. The legislation grew with time. Some of it became obsolete, and contradictions crept in so that it became difficult in recent times to discover what was of obligation and where to find the law on a particular question. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cover_of_a_copy_of_the_1917_Codex_Iuris_Canonici_(Code_of_Canon_Law).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Cover_of_a_copy_of_the_1917_Codex_Iuris_Canonici_%28Code_of_Canon_Law%29.jpg/250px-Cover_of_a_copy_of_the_1917_Codex_Iuris_Canonici_%28Code_of_Canon_Law%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Cover_of_a_copy_of_the_1917_Codex_Iuris_Canonici_%28Code_of_Canon_Law%29.jpg/375px-Cover_of_a_copy_of_the_1917_Codex_Iuris_Canonici_%28Code_of_Canon_Law%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Cover_of_a_copy_of_the_1917_Codex_Iuris_Canonici_%28Code_of_Canon_Law%29.jpg/500px-Cover_of_a_copy_of_the_1917_Codex_Iuris_Canonici_%28Code_of_Canon_Law%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="928" data-file-height="930" /></a><figcaption>Hardcover of the <i>1917 Code of Canon Law</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Since the close of the ‘’Corpus Juris’’ numerous new laws and decrees had been issued by popes, councils, and <a href="/wiki/Congregation_(Roman_Curia)" title="Congregation (Roman Curia)">Roman Congregations</a>. No complete collection of them had ever been published and they remained scattered through the ponderous volumes of the ‘’Bullaria’’ the ‘’<a href="/wiki/Acta_Sanctae_Sedis" class="mw-redirect" title="Acta Sanctae Sedis">Acta Sanctae Sedis</a>’’, and other such compilations, which were accessible to only a few and for professional canonists themselves and formed an unwieldy mass of legal material. Moreover, not a few ordinances, whether included in the ‘’Corpus Juris’’ or of more recent date, appeared to be contradictory; some had been formally abrogated, others had become obsolete by long disuse; others, again, had ceased to be useful or applicable in the present condition of society. Great confusion was thus engendered and correct knowledge of the law rendered very difficult even for those who had to enforce it.<sup id="cite_ref-GeneralLegislation55_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GeneralLegislation55-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the Vatican Council met in 1869 a number of bishops of different countries petitioned for a new compilation of church law that would be clear and easily studied. The council never finished its work and no attempt was made to bring the legislation up to date. By the 19th Century, this body of legislation included some 10,000 norms. Many of these were difficult to reconcile with one another due to changes in circumstances and practice. In response to the request of the bishops at the <a href="/wiki/First_Vatican_Council" title="First Vatican Council">First Vatican Council</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on 14 May 1904, with the <i><a href="/wiki/Motu_proprio" title="Motu proprio">motu proprio</a></i> <i>Arduum sane munus</i> ("A Truly Arduous Task"), <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_X" title="Pope Pius X">Pope Pius X</a> set up a commission to begin reducing these diverse documents into a single code,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> presenting the normative portion in the form of systematic short canons shorn of the preliminary considerations<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ("Whereas...") and omitting those parts that had been superseded by later developments. </p><p>By the winter of 1912, the "whole span of the code"<sup id="cite_ref-BenedictXV205_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BenedictXV205-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> had been completed, so that a provisional text was printed.<sup id="cite_ref-BenedictXV205_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BenedictXV205-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This 1912 text was sent out to all Latin bishops and superiors general for their comment, and their notations which they sent back to the codification commission were subsequently printed and distributed to all members of the commission, in order that the members might carefully consider the suggestions.<sup id="cite_ref-BenedictXV205_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BenedictXV205-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new code was completed in 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the aegis of Cardinal <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Gasparri" title="Pietro Gasparri">Pietro Gasparri</a>, the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law was completed under <a href="/wiki/Benedict_XV" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedict XV">Benedict XV</a>, Pius X's successor, who promulgated it on 27 May 1917<sup id="cite_ref-Chair256_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chair256-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as the Code of Canon Law (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Codex Iuris Canonici</i>) and set 19 May 1918<sup id="cite_ref-Chair256_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chair256-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as the date on which it came into force.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In its preparation centuries of material were examined, scrutinized for authenticity by leading experts, and harmonized as much as possible with opposing canons and even other codes, from the <a href="/wiki/Corpus_Juris_Civilis" title="Corpus Juris Civilis">Codex of Justinian</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Code" title="Napoleonic Code">Napoleonic Code</a>. It contained 2,414 canons<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was in force until Canon 6 §1 1° of the <i><a href="/wiki/1983_Code_of_Canon_Law" title="1983 Code of Canon Law">1983 Code of Canon Law</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> took legal effect—thereby <a href="/w/index.php?title=Abrogation_(canon_law)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abrogation (canon law) (page does not exist)">abrogating</a> it<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—on 27 November 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recodification">Recodification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Codification_(law)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Recodification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Recodification refers to a process where existing codified statutes are reformatted and rewritten into a new codified structure. This is often necessary as, over time, the legislative process of amending statutes and the legal process of construing statutes by nature over time results in a code that contains archaic terms, superseded text, and redundant or conflicting statutes. 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