Amendment

With an amendment to Amendment Act is referred to in the legislation doctrine, which modifies one or more other existing laws in individual parts. The process and the steps for its preparation are called amendments.

Technically, this is done so that only certain parts of the text replaced, newly inserted or removed. The content of an amendment could be simplified like this:

More extensive stories, at the same time change the number of laws are often broken down into several articles, each of which summarizes the changes of a single law. Therefore, one speaks in this context of a " Product Law". Change laws in the area of the German federal law are almost invariably divided into articles, even if only a law is changed.

In historical context it is meant with the " stories " often the laws enacted, the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I after 534.