Code

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 11

(kōd.) [From L. codex, abo ok.] A collection or system of public laws. Of these the principal are: the Just in i an C., promulgated by command of the emperor Just in i an, 534; and the Code Napoléon, established in 1804, and which effected great changes in the laws of France. [s. 202]