That publication included, in addition to the Synopsis and Codification itself and explanatory notes, a compilation of the passages from the Kitáb-i-Aqdas which had already been translated by Shoghi Effendi and published in various books.
The Synopsis andCodification covered the text of both the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the Questions and Answers which constitutes an appendix to the Aqdas.
There is doubtless some grain of truth in this statement, as a fillip may have been given to this codification by the publication of the Theodosian Code, which was speedily followed by the codes of the various Teutonic tribes.
Tradition connects the codification of the Brehon Laws with the name of Patrick, and there is reason for believing, as we shall see later, that the greatest Irish epic was first committed to writing in the 7th century.
In 1866 he proposed to the British National Association for the Promotion of Social Science a revision and codification of the laws of all nations.
According to tradition it was during his reign that the codification of the Senchus Mor took place.
The force of these developments of Apocalypse, Angelology and the Ritual appears both in Ezekiel and in the exilic codification of the ritual which forms so large a part of the Pentateuch.
He was himself a priest and the son of a priest, born and bred in the very order to which we owe the codification of the ritual, and the development of those ideas of guilt and uncleanness that led to its expansion and specialisation.
With the Empire the Civil Code was completed, which I take to be the greatest effort at codification of modern times.
His codificationof the Talmud was equally appreciated in the study of the scholar and in practical life.
With the death of Mahomet began the development and codification of Moslem law.
This is a codification of halakhoth, based on all the authorities then known, some of them now lost.
The earliest existing codificationof the prayer-book is the Siddur (order) drawn up by Amram Gaon of Sura about 850.
The codification of postal laws presented to Congress in 1908, provided for the creation of a Commission of Postal Appeals, to consist of three members, one of whom must be a lawyer, appointed by the President.
Thibaut, on the other hand, with more confidence in the powers of the spirit of modern times, did not believe a good codification to be impossible.
And yet, it was on the question of codification that this memorable controversy was carried on.
Criminal Law, however, at least so far as it relates to indictable offences, ought to be embodied in a definite and complete code, and in the process of codification certain amendments might be made.
It would require very strong internal evidence to destroy the probability, thus based on a most positive statement of facts, that the codification of the ritual only took place in the post-exile period.
Babylonia was the place where a further codification of the law had been placed alongside of Deuteronomy.
It was, however, not until the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 that the Powers reassembled to discuss again the codification of the Laws of War.
It would be a great advantage to have frequent revisions or codification of the statutes on a subject, not involving a change of substance, but merely a simplification of form.
Closely connected with the reform of the currency and the codification of the commercial law was the reform of the banking laws.
The whole work has been similar in character to the codification of French law under Napoleon; in most matters the variety of the older system has ceased, and the law of the empire is now comprised in a limited number of codes.
Since the reign of Peter the Great, ten commissions have been successively employed in the codification of the Russian laws.
In this way the codification of the laws became a mere effort of compilation and arrangement, and setting aside the collation of the ukases, the clerks of the second section of the imperial chancery were quite competent to the task.
The book of Deuteronomy crystallizes a doctrine; it is the codification of teaching which presupposes a carefully prepared soil.
The Talmud shows the influence of that law in many points, and may justly be compared to it as a monument of codification based on great principles.
But the Roman law was ripe for codification in the time of the first Caesar.
The mere evolution of the system from its principles required no transcendant effort; and the idea of codification must have been something less than divine, or it could not have been compassed by the intellect of Justinian.
The committee intrusted with the work of the codification of the criminal law of Hungary, closed its labors in 1843.
He was likewise a member of the Committee appointed for the codification of the criminal law.
