early modern legal codification

C18321
concept

Early modern legal codification is the systematic collection, organization, and formal enactment of laws in comprehensive written codes by emerging centralized states between roughly the 16th and 18th centuries.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
early modern legal code 2
17th-century legislation 1
Reformation-era law 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: early modern legal codification
Generated description
Early modern legal codification is the systematic collection, organization, and formal enactment of laws in comprehensive written codes by emerging centralized states between roughly the 16th and 18th centuries.

Instances (7)

Instance Via concept surface
Danish Code of 1683
Norwegian Code of 1687 early modern legal code
Edict establishing Protestantism in Béarn Reformation-era law
Carolina (Constitutio Criminalis Carolina)
surface form: Constitutio Criminalis Carolina
early modern legal text
Sobornoye Ulozheniye law code of 1649
surface form: Sobornoye Ulozheniye
early modern legal code
Acts of Settlement and Explanation 17th-century legislation
Orlyk Constitution early modern constitution