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n. - The act of making law; A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones).

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  • So then codification is simply mass implementation?
  • But I believe that we need to swing away from the notion that codification is the most important goal.
  • It has its hero, Field; its villain is James C. Carter of New York,26 who fought the idea of codification with as much vigor as Field fought for it.
  • It's the idea of some kind of codification or quid pro quo that I find incredibly damaging and insidious and absolutely false, and I reject it.
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