. Specific features of legislative technique in case of codification.

Abstract: To keep the system of legal regulation steady it is necessary to constantly bring order into vast masses of laws and other normative legal acts to avoid repetition, collisions, to terminate invalid provisions, and to achieve unification of legal standards. And codification has always been one of the most efficient means to achieve these goals. D.V. Chukhvichev’s article contains analysis of key types and principles of codification, as well as study of the Russian legal practice on the issue.