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To codify means to arrange laws, rules, or regulations into a systematic code.�The process of codification can involve taking judicial decisions or legislative acts and turning them into codified law.� This process does not necessarily create new law, it merely arranges existing law, usually by subject, into a code.�

For example, in the United States, acts of�Congress�are codified chronologically in the order in which they became law at Congress.gov. Additionally, the�United States Code�codifies those federal statutes by subject matter instead.

The codification of law helps identify inconsistent, duplicate, and/or ambiguous laws.�Additionally, codification creates a uniform source that is easy to access for both professionals and the lay public.

That said, although codifications are useful for finding information, courts sometimes refer back to the original�legislation�or�judicial proceeding�when interpreting a codified law in order to understand the intent of the creator of the law.