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Find the law. Check the source.

Codify turns scanned pages into searchable text, identifies each section and keeps a link to the original. This example uses a fictional law.

Scanned page from the illustrative Atlantis Gazette
Published: the original page remains the evidence.

Read and structured

Each section can be found, read and cited.

<section eId="sec_5">
  <heading>Right of access to the official text</heading>
  …
</section>

Usable: right of access to the official text

Every person shall have the right of access to the official text of any law in force, in a form that is complete, current and free of charge.

/akn/xa/act/1992/7/eng@1992-05-14#sec_5

Step through the transformation

How the law is published  ·  255 mapped

Atlantisillustrative

Already in the standard17

Structured, other format46

Web pages, clause by clause142

PDF only8

Nothing published online6

Not yet surveyed36

SurveyToo much law is still locked in scanned pages.

ApproachA scanned page can be seen. Its text cannot be searched.

ReadingCodify finds the text, headings and sections.

ResolutionFind a section. Cite it. Check the original page.

Nine hundred acts, once every citation can be followed. The clusters are subject areas, and the lines between them are what a graph makes visible.
One tangle of overlapping instruments, as a consolidation would draw them together: a single current text, with the rest kept behind it.

Illustrative corpus.

One amendment. One exact destination.

An illustrative amendment adds “including in accessible formats” to section 5(1). The connection identifies both the affected provision and the instrument responsible for the change.

Amending instruction → amends § 5(1) → changed provision.

The law changes. Its history stays.

In this illustration, the original wording dates from 14 May 1992. The accessible-formats amendment takes effect on 1 June 2001. A dated record preserves both versions and the instrument responsible for the change.

See what an amendment changes.From the highlighted source law · illustrative amendment

The amending instrument

Public Access Amendment Act

In section 5(1), after “free of charge”, insert “, including in accessible formats”.

Amending instruction → § 5(1)
The affected provision

Right of access to the official text

Every person shall have the right of access to the official text of any law in force, in a form that is complete, current and free of charge, including in accessible formats.

Public Access to Legislation Ordinance · § 5(1)

The new words stay linked to the law that introduced them.

The libraryOne readable law, kept in view as the collection grows.

The collectionEvery law gets the same treatment. References connect them.

The wholeTogether, the laws show how the state works, searchable with every source kept.

The effectFollow the amendment. See the changed words.

The domainsLaws cluster into subjects, found from their structure and their language.

The tangleSeveral laws often govern the same thing.

One textA lawmaker draws them into one text. A simpler statute book, and surer implementation.

Illustrative translation

One text. Every language.

  1. Translation notes
  2. Translating
  3. Consistency audit

Source · Atlantis · English

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Translation notes

  • amending instrumentinstrument modificatifdefined term
  • official textالنص الرسميdefined term
  • in forceen vigorterm of art
  • commencemententrada en vigorfalse friend · not “comienzo”
  • the GazetteВедомостиnamed entity
  • shallwajibdeontic convention
  • the Ministerle ministrenamed entity
  • register of legislationسجل التشريعاتdefined term

Working from 8 terms

Arabic
Zerzura

0%0 of 24 sections

A · clean

art_1المادة ١

French
Ys

0%0 of 24 sections

A · clean

art_1Article 1

Spanish
Quivira

0%0 of 24 sections

B · advisory

art_1Artículo 1

Russian
Kitezh

0%0 of 24 sections

A · clean

art_1Статья 1

Indonesian
Langkasuka

0%0 of 24 sections

A · clean

art_1Pasal 1

  • Numbers and sentinels · 100%
  • Terminology · matches the notes
  • Clauses · counts agree

Unofficial machine translation. The original-language text is the sole binding version.

Read whole. Terms first.

The act is read whole and its terms fixed before a word is translated.

The discipline of the UN’s translators, at machine speed.

Section by section, in parallel.

Article 1 stays Article 1 in every language.

Each section is keyed to its number, so headings, numbering and citations survive.

Audited and aligned.

Checked for every number, term and clause.

Unofficial until a jurist signs it off. The original text stays binding.

Illustrative reform

Better law. Then better again.

Connected laws → reviewed reform → fewer repeated checks

LawmakerAI assistant

Standardising definitions.

BusinessesFewer forms

CitizensLess waiting

Public servantsLess duplication

Analytical lensesLegislative consistencyConflicting rulesTwo laws define the same term differently

Set the goal.

Make the rules consistent.

Two laws define the same term differently. Standardise it once.

V · Law, put to work

The shared legal record

What rights do I have as a tenant?

Citizens

Businesses

Investors

Public servants

Academia

Developers

Legislatures

Know your rights. Understand your obligations.
Check the rules behind a decision.

The open-source foundation

Codify Core

Take it anywhere.
Make it your own.

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Understand the law. Then improve it.

Search the rules, follow their history and check the source. Give the people shaping law a clearer basis for change.

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