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Emperor [fr. empereur, Fr.; imperator, Lat.], a sovereign prince who bears rule over large kingdoms and territories; a monarch of title and dignity supposed to be superior to a king. 'The Emperor' was the title of the head of the Holy Roman Empire, the successor in the West of the Empire founded by Augustus, and this is the proper signification of the term. But in modern times the title 'Emperor' has been assumed by various monarchs. Thus Napoleon I. styled himself Emperor of the French, and the title was again taken by his nephew, Napoleon III. The sovereigns of Austria and Russia were also styled emperor; and in 1870 the King of Prussia assumed the title of German Emperor. The King is Emperor of India by virtue of the (English) Royal Titles Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 10)....
Emperor
The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire a title of dignity superior to that of king as the emperor of Germany or of Austria the emperor or Czar of Russia...
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,...
Caeligsar
A Roman emperor as being the successor of Augustus Caeligsar Hence a kaiser or emperor of Germany or any emperor or powerful ruler See Kaiser Kesar...
Same transaction
Same transaction, between a series of acts seems to be an essential ingredient for those acts to constitute the same transaction, State of Andhra Pradesh v. Cheemalapati Ganeswara Rao, AIR 1963 SC 1850: (1963) 2 Cr LJ 671.Means in order that a series of acts be regarded as parts of 'the same transaction', they must be connected together in some way, for instance, by proximity of time, unity of place, unity or continuity of purpose or design, or continuity of action. Proximity of time and unity of place are not essential, though they furnish good evidence of what unites several acts. If any of these things happens and the whole process is begun over again, it is not the same transaction but a new one, in spite of the fact that the same general purpose may continue, Shapurji Sorabji v. Emperor, AIR 1936 Bom 154; Debi Prasad v. Emperor, 212 IC 135: Raj Kishore Tewari v. Rex, AIR 1949 All 139; Faiz Mohammad v. Emperor, (1945) ILR 1945 Ker 100.Same transaction, suggests a continuity of acti...
Roman law
Roman law : the legal system of the ancient Romans that includes written and unwritten law, is based on the traditional law and legislation of the assemblies, resolves of the senate, enactments of the emperors, edicts of the praetors, writings of the jurisconsults, and the codes of the later emperors, and that is the basis for much of the modern civil law systems ...
VerbarImperator
A commander a leader an emperor originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate whence it carried wiht it some special privileges After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor...
A Erarium
A Erarium, the State Treasury of Rome. Under the Emperors the 'rarium as the public treasure was distinguished from the fiscus, the privy purse of the emperor, See FISCUS....
Charities, or Public Trusts
Charities, or Public Trusts. One of the earliest fruits of the Emperor Constantine's zeal, or pretended zeal, for Christianity, was a permission to his subjects to bequeath their property to the Church. This permission was soon abused to so great a degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments.Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities grew up from the civil law; and Lord Eldon, in assenting to that opinion, has judiciously remarked, that at an early period that ordinary had the power to apply a portion of every man's personal estate to charity; and when afterwards the statute compelled a distr...
Code
Code, a collection or system of laws. The collection of laws and constitutions made by order of the Emperor Justinian is distinguished by the appellation of 'The Code' by way of eminence. See CIVIL LAW.The Code Napoleon, or Civil Code of France, pro-ceeding from the French Revolution, and the administration of Napoleon while First Consul, effected great changes in the laws of that country. Framed in the first instance by a commission of jurists appointed in 1800, this Code, after having passed both the tribunate and the legislative body, was promulgated in 1804 as the 'Code Civil des Francais.' When Napoleon became emperor, the name was changed to that of Code Napoleon, by which it is still often designated, though it is now styled by its original name 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...
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