... legal system is that it is possible to create a set of texts containing an authoritative statement of the law, usually in the form of Civil and Criminal 'Codes', or sub-divisions thereof. In the common law, a codifying act is primarily a tidying-up operation. It is a piece of legislation, which brings together all the existing law on a topic, both statute and case law, and converts it into a single entity- the codifying Act. An oft-cited example is the original Sale of Goods Act 1893. The aim of tidying-up is one with the codifying Acts share with the continental codes. However, by contrast with the continent, codification in England has been used as a limited means of imposing legislative coherence on a particularly problematic area of law, such as the sale of goods or the law relating to theft. What English codifications have not done is to ...

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