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.
Written or codified law; the law on the books, as enacted by a government body or agency having the power to make laws. Case law the body of judicial precedent, historically built upon legal reasoning and past interpretations of statutory laws, that serves as a guide to decision making, especially in the courts.