code
code
A systematic complete collection of statute law, from which all laws that have been superseded or have become obsolete have been eliminated; also a digest or compendium of rules or regulations. Among the famous legal codes are the laws of Hammurabi the Babylonian, in pre-Christian days, those of the Emperors Theodosius II (438 ) and Justinian (6th century ), of King Alfred of England (887 ), and of Napoleon, and finally the Code of Canon Law, begun by Pope Pius X in 1904 , and published in 1917 by Benedict XV .