codified

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The justices could choose to focus on a 1952 law passed by Congress that codified birthright citizenship and not wade into the larger constitutional debate, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law expert.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

“There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made — a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements,” Murphy wrote.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

It evolved over centuries to an accepted standard between governments, permanently codified by the Vienna Convention in 1961.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Discounts are not codified into law and are subject to change or discontinuation.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan