CODIFY


Meaning of CODIFY in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

law

In 534 the emperor codified the law .

In 1941, Roosevelt conceded failure and Congress summoned the courage to codify the date in law .

Would it seek merely to codify the existing case law or to reform on the existing case law?

The purpose for which such financial powers are used are not codified in law .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The agreement must still be codified by federal legislation.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His call for a new spirit of experimental investigation was later codified and converted into a more concrete programme by Francis Bacon.

In 1941, Roosevelt conceded failure and Congress summoned the courage to codify the date in law.

In 534 the emperor codified the law.

Institutions have regulations, codified systems of behavior, organizational flow charts, and job descriptions.

It codified democratic rights and freedoms including freedom of speech, assembly and association, and private ownership.

New nations from the eighteenth century onward have found it both necessary and useful to codify their constitutions.

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