codified
Put into law
Codified means arranged into a systematic code or set of rules.
Laws become codified when written into formal statutes: The rights were codified in the Constitution.
Practices become codified when standardized: Over time, the informal guidelines were codified into official policy.
The word implies making explicit what may have been implicit or scattered.
Formally enacted laws
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- lawsEnforceable societal rules
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
enactment · constitution · amendment · statute book · jurisprudence · decree · edict · charter
Systematic grouping by traits
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- catalogingSystematic organization into records
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
- structuringImposing systematic order
arrangement · sorting · ordering · sequencing · categorization · systemization · compartmentalization · enumeration
Accepted social practices
- protocolsEstablished codes of conduct
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- guidelinesSuggested rules for behavior
- specificationsStated requirements and parameters
parameters · standards · uniformity · consistency · templates · formats · benchmarks · criteria
statutes
Formally enacted laws
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- lawsEnforceable societal rules
ordinance · enactment · constitution · amendment · statute book · jurisprudence · decree · edict · charter · bylaw
classification
Systematic grouping by traits
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- catalogingSystematic organization into records
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
structuring · arrangement · sorting · ordering · sequencing · categorization · systemization · compartmentalization · enumeration · collation
conventions
Accepted social practices
- protocolsEstablished codes of conduct
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- guidelinesSuggested rules for behavior
specifications · parameters · standards · uniformity · consistency · templates · formats · benchmarks · criteria · rules
- organizedorganized, ordered, arranged, sorted, classified
- government termslegislative, federal agencies, congressional, state agencies, parliamentary
- systematicmethodical, structured, organized, orderly, planned
- legal statuslegal status, legal capacity, civil status, personhood, legal entity
codifiedunsystematized
Lacking orderly structure
disarranged · disorganized · disordered · unstructured · scattered
- codified lawsFormally recorded legal rules