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. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition A code or collection of laws; particularly … [Read more...] about CODEX
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COGNATUS
Lat. In the civil law. A relation by the mother's side; a cognate. A relation, or kinsman, generally. … [Read more...] about COGNATUS
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. Lamb v. Lamb, 11 Pick. (Mass.) 376; Dunham v. Averlll, 45 Conn. 70, 20 Am. Rep. 642; Green v. Lane, 45 N. C. 113; Grimball v. Patton, 70 Ala. 631; Proctor v. Clarke, 3 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) … [Read more...] about CODICIL
COGNISANCE
(A) pleading. Where the defendant in an action of replevin (not being entitled to the distress or goods which are the subject of the replevin) acknowledges the taking of the distress, and insists that such taking was legal, not because he himself had a right to distrain on his own account, but because he made the distress by the command of another, who had a right to distrain … [Read more...] about COGNISANCE
CODICILLUS
In the Roman law. A codicil; an informal and Inferior kind of will, in use among the Romans. … [Read more...] about CODICILLUS