codification
Rules made systematic
Codification is the process of organizing rules, laws, or principles into a systematic written code.
Laws scattered across statutes and court decisions become a unified body: the codification of civil rights legislation.
The term extends beyond law to any formal arrangement of practices or standards: the codification of grammar rules, the codification of best practices.
To codify is the verb.
State of being identical
- consistencyReliable adherence to standards
- normalizationAdjusting to a standard
- formalizationProcess of making rigorous
- harmonizationCreating consistency across systems
regulation · conformity · specification · guidelines · benchmark · protocol · criteria · parameters
Official enactment of statutes
- statutesFormally enacted laws
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- enactmentsLaws formally passed
- ordinancesLocal government rules
jurisprudence · legal code · civil code · penal code · canon law · statutory law · administrative law · common law
Arranging into coherent method
- structuringImposing systematic order
- orderingPlacing in sequence
- arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement
- organizationStructured group with purpose
schematization · methodology · framework · protocol · procedure · classification · cataloging · indexing
Arranging into groups
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- typologyClassification by shared traits
- sortingArranging into sequence
- groupingArrangement by shared traits
labeling · tagging · nomenclature · designation · binning · itemization · profiling · division
uniformity
State of being identical
- consistencyReliable adherence to standards
- normalizationAdjusting to a standard
- formalizationProcess of making rigorous
harmonization · regulation · conformity · specification · guidelines · benchmark · protocol · criteria · parameters · rubric
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
- statutesFormally enacted laws
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- enactmentsLaws formally passed
ordinances · jurisprudence · legal code · civil code · penal code · canon law · statutory law · administrative law · common law · case law
systemization
Arranging into coherent method
- structuringImposing systematic order
- orderingPlacing in sequence
- arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement
organization · schematization · methodology · framework · protocol · procedure · classification · cataloging · indexing · tabulation
categorization
Arranging into groups
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- typologyClassification by shared traits
- sortingArranging into sequence
grouping · labeling · tagging · nomenclature · designation · binning · itemization · profiling · division · segmentation
canon
Accepted authoritative works
precept · principle · teaching · belief · ideology · philosophy · axiom · orthodoxy · catechism · scripture
- lawslaws, statute, ordinance, acts, statutes
- legal systemsconstitutional law, judiciary, criminal code, court system, penal code
- language historystandardization, orthography, spelling reforms, grammar rules, dictionaries
- Language Standardsstandard language, prescriptivism, proper grammar, proper usage, correctness
- legal changesrepeal, enactment, legalization, decriminalization, ban
- legal codescode, codes, statute, statutes, law code
codificationchaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorder · disorganization · muddle · confusion · anarchy
codificationoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
custom · unwritten law · common law · tacit knowledge · folk tradition
codificationdisorganization
Absence of systematic arrangement
flexibility · improvisation · fluidity · haphazardness · adaptability