I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U. S. law, of the U. S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.