As a whole, it represents a further useful step in codifying and strengthening the common law on goods and services.
The problem of codifying the law is enormously complex and lengthy.
Setting aside the unhelpful lack of a codifying introduction of substance, only in the broadest of senses could this collection on 'la nouvelle histoire culturelle' claim an overarching theme(s).
Phillips' recommendation of this work suggests he approved of their idea of collecting, though not codifying, customary law.
There is no point in denying this commonality, and much to be gained by codifying it and using the codification to classify new cases as they arise.
Codifying this property of event traces as a local check in a decidable logic provides a rigorous definition of well-formedness, and allows mechanical verification of it.
Greater difficulties perhaps arise in codifying the subsequent stages of the style.
The difficulty of codifying a certain moral attitude into a set of rules that change behaviour is essentially what corrupts norms.
