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.
At the Federal level, each statute is published in three versions. First, a statute is enacted as a slip law, which is the statute by itself on a single sheet or in pamphlet form.When a slip law is published, it will be given a Public Law Number to identify it.The Public Law Number (e.g. Pub.L.bout Codes. The official codification (i.e. the version published by the government) of U.S. Federal statutes is the United States Code (U.S.C.). U.S.C. is broken down into 52 subject Titles, with each Title representing a major subject area (e.g. Banks and Banking, Labor, Transportation).