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.
The term codified law refers to statutes that have been organized (codified) by subject matter; in this narrower sense, some but not all statutes are considered codified.. The entire body of codified statute is referred to as a code, such as the United States Code, the Ohio Revised Code or the Code of Canon Law.