codified laws
Formalized legal rules
Codified laws are statutes that have been systematically organized and compiled into a formal code.
Rather than existing as scattered individual acts, codified laws are arranged by subject matter into a unified structure: The criminal code contains all codified laws related to offenses and penalties.
Most modern legal systems rely on codification to make laws accessible and coherent.
- statuteEnacted written rule
- Twelve TablesEarly Roman legal code
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- law of the landPrevailing legal system
- rule of lawSupremacy of established laws
legal system · legal framework · textualism · ordinance · bill · Corpus Juris Civilis · due process · jurisprudence · Roman law · originalism · judiciary · enactments · statutory law · civil law · promulgation · letter of the law · canon · legislation
- Enlightened DespotsFrederick the Great, Catherine the Great, religious tolerance, legal reform, judicial reform
- legal codescodes, statute, statutes, state statutes, federal statutes
- legislationbills, acts, laws, statutes, bill
- Chinese lawmarriage law, inheritance law, judicial reform, penal servitude, flogging
- statutesfederal statutes, state statutes, enacted laws, federal laws, statutory law
codified lawsunwritten laws
Informal binding social expectations
oral tradition · common law · social conventions · gentlemen's agreements · mores
codified lawstribal law
Indigenous community legal system
divine law · natural law · religious law · moral law · indigenous law
codified lawscase law
Judge-made legal doctrine
common law · precedent · judicial decisions · court rulings · judicial precedent