The Code. What is the codified law?

All of us are obliged to live by the laws. Some of them are designed to protect the interests of the state and society, and some simply establish a certain order of action, so that we know what and how to do. Most laws exist in free form, but there are also codified, the most significant and known for society.

"The law is severe, but the law"

Of course, when the first code appeared, no one will say with certainty. Their roots go back to ancient Greece and Rome, but here the active codification of legislation began closer to the Soviet era (XX century). It is worth noting that it was the systematization of legislation that introduced the code. What is the systematization? This is a regulated, intellectual process for bringing legislative acts into a structured, systemic form. It began long ago, but was actively applied only since the XVII-XVIII centuries, as an example, the famous Code of Napoleon. In the future, the systematization of legislation will become one of the most important tasks of state bodies. It is necessary to understand that the law is designed to regulate and control, punish and suppress, so that, as a rule, it performs protective and punitive functions, and therefore its observance is absolutely necessary for everyone to whom it is designed.

How are laws systematized?

In general, the types of systematization 3 - codification, consolidation, incorporation. In our legal family (Romano-Germanic), codification is most developed, the result of which is the code. What is codification? This is a kind of systematization of legislation, in which all normative legal acts at the level of "law" that regulate one sphere of society's life are combined into one. Simply put, the code is a set of federal laws, and he himself is such a law, so it is often called the Federal Code. Now in the Russian Federation there are a huge number of codes - from the known Civil to Criminal Executive, and all are created through the codification of laws. They can be supplemented, changed and ceased to exist only on the basis of separate federal laws, with instructions in those about it. The federal law, as a general rule, operates throughout the entire territory of our state and is compulsory for execution by all its residents (beginning with individuals and ending with state bodies) and even by stateless persons, by citizens of another state, etc.

Goals and objectives

First of all, the codes are designed to regulate the spheres of public life, and quite clearly. Depending on what sphere the code regulates, it has its own tasks and goals, although there are uniform for all legislation - maintenance of the interests of society and the state, their protection. Each of the regulatory and legal acts should have the subject of regulation, including, and the code. What does all this mean? Public relations, developing in the process of life. They can be both within the law and violate it. In addition, speaking of codification, it should be noted that its purpose is also to create such an act that would be most convenient for citizens. That is, the state cares about the upbringing of the legal culture through the creation of accessible and understandable acts. Of course, not all articles of the codes will be clear to you if you are not a lawyer, but for this additional interpretative acts are created, comments are written to the codes - this is the work of the highest judicial and legislative authorities.

Perception

Each code is perceived by society and even by the state in its own way: much depends on the goals and tasks that it sets for itself, on the range of public and state interests that it protects. The famous phrase - "ignorance of the law does not absolve from responsibility" - is a subject of constant discussions, because it is one thing to know the criminal law, quite another to know the entire list of administrative offenses that can be established by the subjects of the Russian Federation. Nevertheless, the principle of knowledge of the law fixes the presumption any code. What is the presumption and why is it fixed? This provision, which does not require justification (as an axiom in geometry), and its consolidation is necessary for giving legal force.