Corpus

Participes plures sunt quasi unum corpus, in eo quod unum jus habent, et oportet quod corpus sit intergum et quod in nulla parte sit defectus

Participes plures sunt quasi unum corpus, in eo quod unum jus habent, et oportet quod corpus sit intergum et quod in nulla parte sit defectus [Lat.], several partners are as one body, inasmuch as they have one right, and it is necessary that the body be perfect, and that there be defect in no part....

Paedo-corpus juris

Paedo-corpus juris, a body of law wholly made for children and child rights, 'No socially important legislation can fulfill itself without the mobilization of the society who legal mobilization is the catalyst tor paedo corpus-juris' [A Code for Child Rights in Legally Speaking p. 186 (190)] (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...

Corpus Christi Day

Corpus Christi Day, the 2nd June, a feast instituted in 1264 in honour of the Blessed Sacrament, and on which fairs and markets are prohibited by the still unrepealed 27 Hen. 6, c. 5, but which is omitted from the list of 'hollie daies' prescribed and limited by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 2 By 32 Hen. 8, c. 21 [repealed by (English) Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1873], a full Trinity Term was directed to begin on the Friday next after Corpus Christi Day....

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, 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....

corpus pl: cor·po·ra [-pə-rə] : the main body of a thing ;specif : the principal of a fund, trust, or estate as distinct from income or interest : res ...

corpus delicti

corpus delicti [New Latin, literally, the body of the offense] : the substance of a crime that the prosecutor must prove and that consists of an injury or loss (as death of a victim or disappearance of property) and the criminal act that resulted in it ...

corpus juris

corpus juris [Medieval Latin, literally, a body of law] : a comprehensive collection of the law of a judicial system or of a country or jurisdiction ...

Cepi corpus et paratum habeo

Cepi corpus et paratum habeo (I have taken the body and have it ready), a return made by the sheriff upon an attachment, capias, etc., when he has the person, against whom the process was issued, in custody, Fitz. N. B. 26...

Corpus cum causa

Corpus cum causa, a writ issuing out of Chancery to remove both the body and record touching the cause of any man lying in execution on a judgment for debt into the King's Bench, there to lie till he have satisfied the judgment, Fitz. N.B. c. 21....

Corpus humanum non recipit estimationem

Corpus humanum non recipit estimationem [Lat.], A human body is not susceptible of appraisement....

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