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Centumviri






Centumviri

Civil law. The citizens of Rome were distributed into thirty-five tribes, and three persons out of each tribe were elected judges, who were called centumviri, although they were one hundred and five in number.

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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer

Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.

Centumviri
Civil law. The citizens of Rome were distributed into thirty-five tribes, and three persons out of each tribe were elected judges, who were called centumviri, although they were one hundred and five in number.

Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.



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Cent
Money. A copper coin of the United States of the value of ten mills; ten of them are equal to a dime, and one hundred, to one dollar. Each cent is required to contain one hundred and sixty-eight grains.

Centime
The name of a French money; the one hundredth part of a franc.

Central
Relating to the centre, or placed in the centre

Century
Civil law. One hundred.



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Censure
An official reprimand or condemnation of an attorney.

Census
An enumeration of the inhabitants of a country.

Cent
Money. A copper coin of the United States of the value of ten mills; ten of them are equal to a dime, and one hundred, to one dollar. Each cent is required to contain one hundred and sixty-eight grains.

Centime
The name of a French money; the one hundredth part of a franc.

Central
Relating to the centre, or placed in the centre

Centumviri

Century
Civil law. One hundred.

Cepi
A Latin word signifying I have taken.

Cepi corpus
Practice. The return which the sheriff, or otherproper officer, makes when he has arrested a defendant by virtue of a capias.

Cepit
Took. This is a technical word, which cannot be supplied by any other in an indictment for larceny.

Cepit et abduxit
He took and led away.

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