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What legal term in ancient times simply meant a piece of wood?

The Latin word codex meant "piece of wood". It was on wooden boards smeared with wax that the first books were made in the format familiar to us, and not in the form of a scroll. Later, instead of wood, the Romans began to use parchment for codices. In the 3rd century, a collection of imperial constitutions was published in the form of a code. Today in Russian the word "code" is used specifically for the names of codes of laws.

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