Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Rand on Star Trek, Dead at 85. Grace Lee Whitney, best known as Yeoman Janice Rand in the original Star Trek series, died on May 1 at her home in Coarsegold, Calif. She was 85.
verb (used with object), codified, codifying. 1. to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code. 2. to make a digest of; arrange in a systematic collection. Origin of codify. 1795-1805.
U.S. jurisprudence also involves the interpretation of written laws, including constitutions, regulations, ordinances. Codification rearranges and displaces prior statutes and case decisions. Codification of an area of law generally constitutes the whole source that is relied upon for a legal question in that area.