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Abbey, or Abby
Abbey, or Abby [fr. abbatia, Lat.], a place or house for religious retirement, governed by an abbess where nuns are, and by an abbot where monks reside. No fewer than 190 abbeys were dissolved by Henry VIII., the yearly revenue of which amounted to 2,853,000/. Per annum (an almost incredible sum, considering the value of money in those days), a great part of which went to Rome, the governors and governesses of several of the richest among them being foreigners resident in Italy. See 27 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 31 Hen. 8, c. 13, printed in supplement to vol. 16 of the 2nd ed. of the Statutes Revised....
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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