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Setting forth a system of organization for a set of laws. … [Read more...] about CODIFY

English law. One who passes or acknowledges, a fine of lands or tenements to another, in distinction from the cogzisee, to whom the fine of the lands is acknowledged. … [Read more...] about COGNISOR

Conversion into an encrypted format. May also refer to as the creation of computer code or source code. … [Read more...] about CODING

In old English law. The acknowledgment of a fine; the certificate of such acknowledgment. In the Roman law. The judicial examination or hearing of a cause. … [Read more...] about COGNITIO

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 money. The man asked the woman whether she would become to him a materfamilias, (mistress of his family,) to which she replied that she would. In her turn she asked the man whether he would become to her a paterfamilias, (master of … [Read more...] about COEMPTIO