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The presented article is an attempt at a synthesis of problems connected with the notion, shapes and the role of codification in a democratic state of law. Codification constitutes the foundation of legal order which a given state possesses in a particular area of normalization. A code of law is the most valued form of systematization of legal norms in a given area of law.