The process of organizing laws, rules, or knowledge into an official, systematic code or written system.
From Latin 'codex' (book) and '-fication' (making). Originally referred to collecting scattered laws into one organized code, like when Emperor Justinian compiled Roman law.
The Napoleonic Code revolutionized the world by being one of the first complete codifications—it showed that complex legal systems could be written down clearly so anyone could understand the rules.
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