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A third Committee was established on February 23, 1666, consisting of Peder Lassen, Vice Treasurer [[Holger Vind]], State College Assessor [[Kristoffer Parsberg]] and Supreme Court judge [[Rasmus Vinding]]. The new Committee reflected the influence of statesman [[Peder Griffenfeld|Peder Schumacher]] (Count Griffenfeld after his ennoblement), as both Parsberg and Vinding were his close friends. The third Committee started off a lengthy conflict between Lassen and Vinding regarding the Code, as Lassen was the professional jurist, while Vinding lacked legal training. A professor of history and geography, Vinding had a good reputation as a gifted judge, but lacked in-depth knowledge of the Danish laws.<ref>Stig Iuul, 1954, p. 29</ref>
Work in the Third Committee did not get under way, so on March 8, 1666, the King ordered each of the Committee's four members to compile and revise their own set of laws, removing outdated statutes from the Danish system of legal writs. In practice, all earlier work was abandoned, which was a defeat for Lassen who had been the driving force so far, and perhaps a tactical move by the King to have him superseded by Vinding.<ref>Stig Iuul, 1954, p. 33</ref> Of the four submitted drafts, Vinding's so-called ''Codex Fredericus'' gained the best reception, after which legislative work dwindled down again. Meanwhile, Lassen kept his rejected draft at hand should Vinding's draft be turned down.
By the late 1660s, Vinding's friend Peder Schumacher was appointed as Assessor both to the State College and the Supreme Court. He used his influence with the King to get Vinding's draft approved, so Vinding by a secret order on March 11, 1669 was given the task of drafting the new body of laws, ''Corpus juris Danici''.<ref>Stig Iuul, 1954, s. 36.</ref> By the end of 1669, Vinding put forth his suggestions, which was an updated version of his earlier ''Codex Fredericus'', but with a more systematic setup and fewer outdated or contradictory sections. The content of the text was mainly old laws coupled with new laws based on earlier verdicts (i.e. [[Common Law]]).<ref>Stig Iuul, 1954, p. 44-54</ref>
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