I've always wondered, why is the tax code called the "tax code" Is it written in English and how many lines is it?
For example, the body of federal law in the U.S. is called the "United States Code". http://uscode.house.gov/
There's also the "model code" category in the US, where what you're codifying is typically common law principles distilled from court decisions, subject to some attempt at reform by the people involved in developing the model code.
It's computer code that got it's name from legal code (back to the original latin word "codex" -- a list of laws).