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Concordist

The compiler of a concordance

Compendium

A brief compilation or composition containing the principal heads or general principles of a larger work or system an abridgment an

Novell'

of Novell' Constitutiones, Just. In Cod. 'cordi nobis,' ' 4. It does not, however, appear that any official compilation of these new constitutions appeared in the lifetime of Justinian. The Greek text of the Novell', of which

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Civil Law

and the third, the forms of pleadings. (4) Edictum Perpetuum Juliani, Offilius, in Julius C'sar's time, made a compilation of the Pr'tor's Edicts, which was made perpetual by Salvius Julianus, at the command of the Emperor Hadrian,

Pandect', or Digesta

as it is expressed by the emperor, 'antiquorum prudentium quibus auctoritatem conscribendarum interpretandarumque legum sacratissimi principes pr'buerunt.' The compilation, however, comprises extracts from some writers of the republican period, Const. Deo Auctore. Ten years were allowed for

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

Code

Civil. A Code de Procedure Civile, a Code de Commerce, Code d'Instruction Criminelle, and Code Penal were afterwards compiled and promulgated under Bonaparte's administration. To these was sub-sequently added a Code Forestier, or regulations concerning the forests,

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,

Digest

Digest, generally a compilation or distribution of a subject into various classes or departments; particularly the Pandects of Justinian in fifty books,

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.

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