addiction - (Roman law) a formal award by a court sentence of a thing or person to another (as of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"

legal code - a code of laws adopted by a state or nation; "a code of laws"

novate - replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one

stipulate - make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force