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.
Another meaning of codified law is a statute that takes the common law in a certain area of the law and puts it in statute or code form. Private law (particular law) Another example of statutes that are not typically codified is a private law that may originate as a private bill, a law affecting only one person or a small group of persons.