Codification of Law

Law is the formal codification of customs which have achieved such (1. accept) as become the (2. force) norm. This process is accelerated by the existence of (3. legislate) bodies which seek to impose laws.

Law codification involves the (4. legislate) and regulation of statutes, as well as the (5. resolve) of disputes. In the civil law system codification is also an attempt to structure the law according to fundamental (6. ethics) principles to create a sense of order and (7. simple) that all members of society can comprehend, not merely university trained (8. jurisdiction). Stating the law in simple, precise terms, (9. understand) to the lay person with out a (10. speciality) legal education, is the only way they can reasonably obey it or be fairly sanctioned for not obeying it.

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