Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CODE DE PROCEDURE CIVIL

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and the jurisdiction and procedure of the courts dealing with these subjects. CODE DE PROCEDURE CIVIL. That part of the Code Napoleon which regulates the system of courts, their organization, civil procedure, special and extraordinary rem edies, and the execution of judgments. CODE DESTRUCTION CRIMI NELLE. A French code, enacted in 1808, regulating criminal procedure. CODE NAPOLEON. See CODE CIVIL. CODE OF JUSTINIAN. The Code of Justinian (Codex Justinianeus) was a col lection of imperial constitutions, compiled, by order of that emperor, by a commission of ten jurists, including Tribonian, and pro mulgated A. D. 529. It comprised twelve books, and was the first of the four com pilations of law which make up the Corpus Juris Civilis. This name is often met in a connection in dicating that the entire Corpus Juris Civilis is intended, or, sometimes, the Digest; but its use should be confined to the Codex. CODE PENAL. The penal or criminal code of France, enacted in 1810. CODEX. Lat. A code or collection of laws; particularly the Code of Justinian. Also a i oil or volume, and a book written on paper or parchment. CODEX GREGORIANUS. A collec tion of imperial constitutions made by Gre gorius, a Roman jurist of the fifth century, about the middle of the century. It contained the constitutions from Hadrian down to Con stantine. Mackeld. Row. Law, § 63. CODEX HERMOGENIANUS. A col lection of imperial constitutions made by Hermogenes, a j urist of the fifth century. It was nothing more than a supplement to the Codex Gregorianus, (supra,) containing the constitutions of Diocletian and Maximilian. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 63. CODEX JUSTINIANEUS. A collec tion of imperial constitutions, made by a com mission of ten persons appointed by Justin ian, A. D. 528. CODEX REPETIT^J PRiELECTIO NIS. The new code of Justinian; or the new edition of the first or old code, promul gated A. D. 534, being the one now extant. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 78. Tayl. Civil Law, 22.

CODEX THEODOSIANUS. A code compiled by the emperor Theodosius the younger, A. D. 438, being a methodical col lection, in sixteen books, of all the imperial constitutions then in force. It was the only body of civil law publicly received as authen tic in the western part of Europe till the twelfth century, the use and authority of the Code of Justinian being during that interval confined to the East. 1 £1. Comm. 81. CODEX VETUS. The old code. The first edition of the Code of Justinian; now lost. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 70. CODICIL. A testamentary disposition subsequent to a will, and by which the will is altered, explained, added to, subtracted from, or confirmed by way of republication, but in no case totally revoked. 2 Woodd. Lect. 284. A codicil is an addition or supplement to a will, either to add to, take from, or alter the provisions of the will. It must be exe* cuted with the same formality as a will, and, when admitted to probate, forms a part of the will. Code Ga. 1882, § 2404. CODICILLUS. In the Roman law. A codicil; an informal and inferior kind of will, in use among the Romans. CODIFICATION. The process of coi lecting and arranging the laws of a country or state into a code, i. «., into a complete system of positive law, scientifically ordered* and promulgated by legislative authority. COEMPTIO. Mutual purchase. One of the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered to each other a small piece of mon ey. The man asked the woman whether she would become to him a materfamilias, (mis tress of his family,) to which she replied that she would. In her turn she asked the man whether he would become to her a paterfo milias, (master of a family.) On his reply ing in the affirmative, she delivered her piece of money and herself into his hands, and so became his wife. Adams, Rom. Ant. 50L CO-EMPTION. The act of purchasing the whole quantity of any commodity. Whar* ton. COERCION. Compulsion; force; duress. It may be either actual t (direct or positive,) where physical force is put upon a man to compel him to do an act against his will, or implied, (legal or constructive,) where the relation of the parties is such that one m un

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