Sentence examples for codification of the law from inspiring English sources

Its main purpose was to offer a codification of the law, and only incidentally adaptation, and so it introduced relatively little that was new legislation.

These were precursors of the French Commercial Code of 1807, which set the pattern for national codification of the law of commercial transactions in the Latin countries of Europe and America.

He was against codification of the law, maintaining that canonists had to be free to derive the solutions for questions of law from scriptural sources, namely the Quʾrān and the sunnah (the body of Islāmic custom and practice based on Muḥammad's words and deeds).

It should be noted, however, that one of Austin's later lectures listed the many problems that can come with judicial legislation, and recommended codification of the law instead (Austin 1879: vol. 2, Lecture XXXIX, pp. 669 704).

English law is regarded as a common law system, with no major codification of the law, and legal precedents are binding as opposed to persuasive.

The Hoyle codification of the laws and strategy of backgammon (1743) is still largely in force.

While witchcraft was listed as a capital crime in the 1636 codification of the laws by the Plymouth General Court, there were no actual convictions of witches in Plymouth Colony.

The codification of the civil law, first undertaken in 1790, was at last completed under the Consulate.

For centuries following the Council of Trent (1545 63), the need for a codification of the disciplinary law of the church had been recognized, but not until 1904 was a plan put forth.

In 1350 59 he composed a legal text, which was a codification of the traditional law of the Tai state of Nanchao that had ruled in Southwest China from the 7th to the 13th century ad, before the Tai people migrated south to their present homeland.

Chancellor Andrzej Zamoyski was tasked with the codification of the Polish law, a project that became known as the Zamoyski Code.