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COCKET. In English law. A seal be longing to the custom-house, or rather a scroll of parchment, sealed and delivered by the officers of the custom-house to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandises are enter ed; likewise a sort of measure. Fleta, lib. 2, c ix. A name which used to be given to the judicial committee of the privy council, the council-room being built on the old cockpit of Whitehall Place. A collection or compendium of laws. A complete system of positive law, scientifically arranged, and promulgated by legislative authority. Johnson v. Harrison, 47 Minn. 575, 50 N. W. 923, 28 Am. St. Rep. 382; Railroad Co. v. State, 104 Ga. 831, 31 S. E. 531, 42 L. R. A. 518; Railroad Co. v. Weiner, 49 Miss. 739. The collection of laws and constitutions made by order of the Emperor Justinian is distinguished by the appellation of "The Code," by way of eminence. See CODE OF JUSTINIAN. A body of law established by the legislative authority, and intended to set forth, in general ized and systematic form, the principles of the entire law, whether written or unwritten, posi tive or customary, derived from enactment or from precedent. Abbott A code is to be distinguished from a digest. The subject-matter of the latter is usually re ported decisions of the courts. But there are also digests of statutes. These consist of an orderly collection and classification of the existing statutes of a state or nation, while a code is promulgated as one new law cover ing the whole field of jurisprudence. —Code civil. The code which embodies the civil law of France. Framed in the first in stance by a commission of jurists appointed in 1800. This code, after having passed both the tribunate and the legislative body, was promul gated in 1804 as the "Code Civil des Francais." When Napoleon became emperor, the name was changed to that of "Code Napoleon," by which it is still often designated, though it is now officially styled by its original name of "Code Civil."—Code de commerce. A French code, enacted in 1807, as a supplement to the Code Napoleon, regulating commercial transactions, the laws of business, bankruptcies, and the ju risdiction and procedure of the courts dealing with these subjects.—Code de procedure civ i l . That part of the Code Napoleon which regulates the system of courts, their organiza tion, civil procedure, special and extraordinary remedies, and the execution of judgments.— Code d'instruction criminelle. A French code, enacted in 1808, regulating criminal pro cedure.—Code Napoleon. See CODE CIVIL.— Code noir. Fr. The black code. A body of laws which formerly regulated the institution of slavery in the French colonies.—Code of Jus tinian. The Code of Justinian (Codex Jus tinianeus) was a collection of imperial constitu tions, compiled, by order of that emperor, by a commission of ten jurists, including Tribonian, and promulgated A. D. 529. It comprised twelve books, and was the first of the four COCKPIT. COCKSETUS. A boatman; a cockswain. Cowell. CODE.

tag Inhabited or fortified; but not shoals which are perpetually covered by the water. U. S. v. Pope, 28 Fed. Cas. 630; Hamilton y. Menifee, 11 Tex. 751. This word is particularly appropriate to the edge of the sea, while "shore" may be used of the margins of inland waters. —Coast waters. Tide waters navigable from the ocean by sea-going craft, the term embrac ing all waters opening directly or indirectly into the ocean and navigable by ships coming in from the ocean, of draft as great as that of the larger ships which traverse the open seas. The Britannia, 153 U. S. 130, 14 Sup. Ct. 795, 38 L. Ed. 660; The Victory (D. C.) 63 Fed. 636; The Garden City (D. C.) 26 Fed. 773. —Coaster. A term applied to vessels plying exclusively between domestic ports, and usually to those engaged in domestic trade, as distin guished from vessels engaged in foreign trade and plying between a port of the United States and a port of a foreign country; not including pleasure yachts. Belden v. Chase, 150 U. S. 674, 14 Sup. Ct 264, 37 L. Ed. 1218.—Coast ing trade. In maritime law. Commerce and navigation between different places along the coast of the United States, as distinguished from commerce with ports in foreign countries. Com mercial intercourse carried on between different districts in different states, different districts in the same state, or different places in the same district, on the sea-coast or on a navi gable river. Steamboat Co. v. Livingston, 3 Cow. (N. Y.) 747; San Francisco v. California Steam Nav. Co., 10 Cal. 507; U. S. v. Pope, 28 Fed. Cas. 630; Ravesies v. U. S. (D. C.) 35 Fed. 919.—Coastwise. Vessels "plying coastwise" are those which are engaged in the domestic trade, or plying between port and port in the United States, as contradistinguish ed from those engaged in the foreign trade, or plying between a port of the United States and a port of a foreign country. San Francisco v. California Steam Nav. Co., 10 Cal. 504. In English law. A body of officers and men raised and equipped by the commissioners of the admiralty for the defense of the coasts of the realm, and for the more ready manning of the navy in case of war or sudden emergency, as well as for the protection of the revenue against smugglers. Mozley & Whitley. Heraldic ensigns, in troduced by Richard I. from the Holy Land, where they were first invented. Originally they were painted on the shields of the Chris tian knights who went to the Holy Land during the crusades, for the purpose of iden tifying them, some such contrivance being necessary in order to distinguish knights when clad in armor from one another. Whar ton. COBRA-VENOM REACTION. In med ical jurisprudence. A method of serum-diag nosis of insanity from haemolysis (breaking up o< the red corpuscles of the blood) by in jections of the venom of cobras or other ser pents. This test for insanity has recently been employed in Germany and some other European countries and in Japan. COCKBUX. To place the yards of a ship at an angle with the deck. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1288. COAST-GUARD. COAT ARMOR.