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Codify

To reduce to a code, as laws.

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Systematize 76% connected

To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize o…

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Systemize 76% connected

To reduce to system; to systematize.

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Code 74% connected

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a comp…

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Code 74% connected

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a comp…

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Codification 74% connected

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

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Codification 74% connected

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

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