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code

Latin codex, from Latin caudex codex tree trunk, set of wood writing tablets, book] 1 : a systematic compilation or revision of law or legal principles that is arranged esp. by subject: as a : one that

Recompilement

The act of recompiling new compilation or digest as a recompilement of the laws

Compiler

One who compiles esp one who makes books by compilation

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Encyclopedist

The compiler of an encyclopedia or one who assists in such compilation also one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences

Liber feudorum

Liber feudorum, a code of the feudal law, compiled by direction of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and published at Milan, AD 1170.

Corpus 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,

Guidon de la Mer

towards the end of the sixteenth century, though the exact date is doubtful and the name of the compiler unknown. See Pardessus, vol. ii.

Heralds'College, or 'College of Arms

earl marshal and a secretary, are the members of this corporation; in all, thirteen persons. The heralds' books, compiled when pro-gresses were solemnly and regularly made into every part of the kingdom, to inquire into the state

Institutes of Lord Coke

published A.D. 1628, and very frequently edited. The first is an extensive comment upon a treatise on tenures compiled by Littleton, a judge of the Common Pleas, temp. Edward IV. This comment is a rich mine of

Law List

such, (English) Solicitors Act, 1850 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 127), s. 22. It means (1) A publication compiling the names and addresses of practicing lawyers and other information of interest to the profession, such as court

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