[sb. of action from CODIFY: prob. from mod.F.]

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  1.  Reduction (of laws) to a code.

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1817.  Bentham (title), Papers relative to Codification & Public Instruction. Ibid. (c. 1830), Justice & Codification Petit., Wks. V. 639/1. No otherwise than by codification can the reform here prayed for … be carried into effect.

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1840.  Mill, Diss. & Disc., Bentham (1859), I. 373. He [Bentham] demonstrated the necessity and practicability of codification, or the conversion of all law into a written and systematically arranged code.

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1876.  Green, Short Hist., viii. 570. Bills were laid before the House for the codification of the law.

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  2.  gen. Systematization.

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1874.  Lewes, in Contemp. Rev., Oct., 695. (Lagrange & Hegel), At the best it is but a Method of codification, and its merits must be estimated by its success in codifying the results reached by Science.

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1878.  Fiske, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 37. Science is but the codification of experience.

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