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Home Dictionary Name: civilyCorpus juris civilis
Corpus juris civilis. The three great compilations of Justinian, the Institutes, the Pandects, and the Code, together with the Novell', form one body of law, and were considered as such by the glossatores, who divided it into five volumina. The Pandects were distributed into five volumina, under the respective names of Digestum Vetus, Infortiatum, and Digestum Novum. The fourth volume contained the first nine books of the Codex Repetit' Pr'lectionis. The fifth volume contained the Institutes, the Liber Authenticorum or Novell', and the three last books of the Codex. The division into five volumina appears in the oldest editions; but the usual arrangement now is the Institutes, Pandects, the Codex, and Novell'. The name Corpus Juris Civilis was not given to this collection by Justinian, nor by any of the glossatores. Savigny asserts that the name was used in the twelfth century: at any rate, it became common from the date of the edition of D.Gothofredus of 1604, Smith's Dict....
Jura sanguinis nullo jure civili dirimi possunt
Jura sanguinis nullo jure civili dirimi possunt [Lat.], rights of blood cannot be destroyed by any civil right....
Prolem ante matrimonium natam, ut post legitimam, lex civilis succedere facit in h'reditate parentum; sed prolem, quam matrimonium non parit, succedere non sinit lex Anglorum
Prolem ante matrimonium natam, ut post legitimam, lex civilis succedere facit in h'reditate parentum; sed prolem, quam matrimonium non parit, succedere non sinit lex Anglorum. Fort. C. 39, (The Civil Law permits the offspring born before marriage, provided such offspring be afterwards legitimized, to be the heirs of their parents; but the law of the English does not suffer the offspring not produced by the marriage to succeed.) See LEGITIMATION; MERTON....
Possessio
Possessio, in its primary sense, is the condition or power by virtue of which a man has such a mastery over a corporeal thing as to deal with it at his pleasure, and to exclude other persons from meddling with it. This condition or power is detention; and it lies at the bottom of all legal senses of the word 'possession.' This possession is no legal state or condition, but it may be the source of rights, and it then becomes possessio in a juristical or legal sense. Still, even in this sense it is not in any way to be confounded with property (proprietas). A man may have the juristical possession of a thing without being the proprietor, and a man may be the proprietor of a thing without having the juristical possession of it, and consequently without having the detention of it (Dig. 41, tit. 2, s. 12). Ownership is the legal capacity to operate on a thing according to a man's pleasure, and to exclude everybody else from doing so. Possession, in the sense of detention, is the actual exer...
civil
civil [Latin civilis, from civis citizen] 1 : concerning, befitting, or applying to individual citizens or to citizens as a whole [a duty] see also civil right 2 : marked by public order : peaceable in behavior 3 : of or relating to a legal system based on Roman law as opposed to the English common law see also the Judicial System in the back matter 4 : relating to private rights and to judicial proceedings in connection with them ;esp : relating to legal matters other than those characterized as criminal [a action] [a infraction] 5 : defined by law : legal [a disability] 6 : of, relating to, or involving the general public, their activities, needs, ways, or civic affairs as distinguished from special (as military or religious) affairs [the authorities] [the service] civ·il·ly adv ...
Civily
In a civil manner as regards civil rights and privileges politely courteously in a well bred manner...
Addictio
Addictio, the act of a magistrate, the pr'tor in Civil Law. The addictio had different purposes: to enfranchise a slave (manumissio vindicta), to adopt a child, or to transfer the ownership of goods. The transfer of ownership by addictio was like the mancipatio an acquisitio civilis. Such an addictio might be pronounced, either when ownership is transferred by way of in jure cessio, or on the ground of a sale by public auction or upon succession, or for the purposes of an assignatio (magistral grant of ager publicus), or it might take the form of an 'adjudicatio,' the judge deciding a partition suit....
Arbor consanguinitatis
Arbor consanguinitatis, a tree-shaped table, showing the genealogy of a family. See the Arbor civilis of the civilians and canonists, Hale's Com. Law, 335....
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
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