Codex

Codex

Literally, a volume or roll. It is particularly applied to the volume of the civil law, collected by the emperor Justinian, from all pleas and answers of the ancient lawyers, which were in loose scrolls or sheets of parchment. These he compiled into a book which goes by the name of Codex.

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Roll
A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube.

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.

Emperor
An officer. This word is synonymous with the Latin imperator; they are both derived from the. verb imperare. Literally, it signifies he who commands.

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

Book
A general name given to every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately to a printed composition bound in a volume.

Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Codex
Literally, a volume or roll. It is particularly applied to the volume of the civil law, collected by the emperor Justinian, from all pleas and answers of the ancient lawyers, which were in loose scrolls or sheets of parchment. These he compiled into a book which goes by the name of Codex.

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Code
Legislation. Signifies in general a collection of laws. It is a name given by way of eminence to a collection of such laws made by the legislature.

Code 21
In the US penitentiary slang, masturbation.

Code de commerce
The French Commercial Code, promulgated by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807.

Code Henri
A digest of the laws of Haiti, enacted by Henri, king of Hayti. It is based upon the Code Napoleon, but not servilely copied. It is said to be judiciously adapted to the situation of Hayti. A collection of laws made by order of Henry III of France, is also known by the name of Code Henri.

Code of ethics
A document adopted by an organization that describes the expectations of the organization of employee and management behavior to all employees, suppliers, customers, the government, and the community.

Code of federal regulations
An annual publication which contains the cumulative executive agency regulations.

Code of professional conduct
The rules of conduct that govern the legal profession.

Code papirian
The name of a collection of the Roman laws, promulgated by Romulus, Numa, and other kings who governed.

Code prussian
Allgemeines Landrecht. This code is also known by the name of Codex Fredericianus, or Frederician code. It was compiled by order of Frederic H., by the minister of justice, Samuel V. Cocceji, who completed, a part of it before his death, in 1755.

Code theodosian
This code, which originated in the eastern empire, was adopted in the Western empire towards its decline. It is a collection of the legislation of the Christian emperors, from and including Constantine to Theodosius, the Younger; it is composed of sixteen books, the edicts, acts, rescripts, and ordinances of the two empires, that of the east and that of the west.

Code, justinian
Civil law. A collection of the constitutions of the emperors, from Adrian to Justinian;

Code, napoleon
The Code Civil of France, enacted into law during the reign of Napoleon, bore his name until the restoration of the Bourbons when it was deprived of that name, and it is now cited Code Civil.

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Code prussian
Allgemeines Landrecht. This code is also known by the name of Codex Fredericianus, or Frederician code. It was compiled by order of Frederic H., by the minister of justice, Samuel V. Cocceji, who completed, a part of it before his death, in 1755.

Code theodosian
This code, which originated in the eastern empire, was adopted in the Western empire towards its decline. It is a collection of the legislation of the Christian emperors, from and including Constantine to Theodosius, the Younger; it is composed of sixteen books, the edicts, acts, rescripts, and ordinances of the two empires, that of the east and that of the west.

Code, justinian
Civil law. A collection of the constitutions of the emperors, from Adrian to Justinian;

Code, napoleon
The Code Civil of France, enacted into law during the reign of Napoleon, bore his name until the restoration of the Bourbons when it was deprived of that name, and it is now cited Code Civil.

Co-defendant
One who is made defendant in an action with another person.

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Codicil
An amendment to an existing will. Does not mean that the will is totally changed; just to the extent of the codicil.

Coerce
To influence action against someone's will, usually by threat.

Coercion
Compulsion; constraint; duress. Implied or legal coercion is when a person, under legal subjection to another, is induced to do an act involuntarily.

Co-executor
One who is executor of a will in company with another.

Cognati
Cognates. This term occurs frequently in the Roman civil law, and denotes collateral heirs through females