CODEX

Lat. A code or collection of laws; particularly the Code 01' Just in i an. ) Also a Toll or volume, and a book written on ·paper or parchment. -Codex Gregorianu11. A collection of Imperial constitutions made by Greg or i us, a Roman jurist of the fifth century, about the;middle of the century. It contained the constitu• tions from Hadrian down to Const an tine. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 63.-Codex Hermogen.i-.anus. A collection of imperial constitutions· made by Hermogen~, a jurist of the fifth cen- ·tury. It was nothmg more than a supplement to the Codex Greg or i an us, (supra,) containing 1:he constitutions of Diocletian and Maximilian. Mackeld. Rom. Law,§ 63.-Codex Just in i ane us. A collection of imperial constitutions, ·made by a commi ion of ten persons ap-pointed by -.Just in i an, ·A. D. 528.-Codex repe.titm prrelectionis. The new code of Just in i an; -or the new edition of the first or old code, promulgated A. D. 534, being the one now extant. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ti 78. Tayl. Civil Law, 22.-Codex Theodosianus. A code compiled by the emperor Theodosius the younger, A. D. 438, being a methodical collection, in ·sixteen books, of all the imperial constitutions then in force. It was the only body of civil law publicly received as authentic in the west• ·ern part of Europe till tbe twelfth century, the use and authority of the Code of Just in i an be· ing during that interval confined to the IDast. 1 BI. Comm. 81.--0odex vet us. The old code. The first edition of the Code of Just in i an; now lost. Mackeld. Rom. Law, I 70. CODICIL, A testamentary disposition subsequent to a' will, and by which the wlll ls altered, explained, added to, subtracted from, or confirmed by way 01' republlcation, but ln no case totally revoked. Lainb v. ·Lamb, 11 Pick. (Ma .) 876; Dunham v. Averill, 45 Conn. 79, 29 Am. Rep. 642; Green v. Lane, 45 N. C. 113; Grimball v. Patton, 70 Ala. 631; Proctor v. Clarke, 3 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 448. A codicll ls an addition or supplement to a will, either to add to, take from, or alter the provisions 01' the wlll. It must be executed with the same formality as a will, and, when admitted to probate, forms a part of ·the will. Code Ga. 1882, § 2404.. CODICILLUS, In the Roman law. A -codicU; nn informal and inferior kind of will, ·in use among the Romans. COEMPTIO, Mutual purchase. One of •the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered to each other a small piece of mon- -ey. 'The man asked the woman whether she would become to him a materfamiZiaa, (mistre of his family,) to which she replied that,abe would. ID her turn Bhe asked the maa [s. 218]