LEGACY, DEMONSTRATIVE. A demonstrative legacy is a bequest of a certain sum of money; intended for the legatee at all events, with a fund particularly referred to for its payment; so that if the estate be not the testator's property at his death, the legacy will not fail: but be payable out of general assets. 1 Rop. Leg.
codification-the act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order. systematisation, systematization, rationalisation, rationalization-systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale.
, Lawyer, First of his name. 1  It means that the legislature has not made it into a bill and passed it as an act of parliament or the state legislature but it has the same effect as codified laws. Examples could be law of torts which is uncodified yet the tenets are applicable in civil law.