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[ code one of several systematic or cla ified collections of the statutory part of that law, made by various later emperors, as the Codex Hermogenianus, Codex Theodosianus, etc.; especially, a cla ified collection made by Just in i an (see below).-2. In modern jurisprudence: ( a ) A systematic and complete body of statute law intended to supersede all other law within its scope. In this sense a code is not a mere rearrangement of the existing law, but it demands the substitution of new provisions for those of the existing law which appear illogical or erroneous. (b) A body of law which is intended to be merely a restatement of the principles of the existing law in a systematic form. Hence-3. A digest or compendium; an orderly arrangement or system; a body of rules or facts for the regulation or explication of any subject: as, the military code; the code of honor (see below). "None of the Christian virtues," says M. Chabas, "is forgotten in the Egyptian code ." Faiths of the World , p. 147. And thunder'd up into Heaven the Christ le code , That must have life for a blow. Tennyson, Maud, xxiii. 1. S. Alban's is especially rich in the collected materials that lie at the foundation of her great code of chronicles. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 148. Specifically-4. A system of signals with the rules which govern their use. - Alfred's code, a selection, by authority of Alfred the Great, about A. D. 887, from existing laws, often regarded as the foundation of the common law of England. - Amalfitan code. See Amal it an. Barbarian codes, the three collections of laws made by the Gothic tribes on Roman territory, known the Breviary of Alaric, the Papian code (which see, below) or law of the Burgundians, and the Edict of Theodoric. Black code. (a) The system of law regulating the treatment of the colored race which prevailed in the southern United States before the emancipation of the slaves. (b) See code noir, below. - Burgundian code. See Papian code, below. Code Napoléon, the civil code of France, the first and most important of the five codes of law prepared under the direction of Napoleon I. (1803-10). A sixth code of forest laws was added in 1827. These codes still form the substance of the law of France and Belgium, as well as of several German provinces along the Rhine. Their influence on all modern legislation shows them to be of le importance only than the Just in i an code. Code noir, or black code, an edict of Louis XIV. of France in 1685, regulating the West Indian colonies and the condition and treatment of negro slaves and freed negroes. Code of Frederick the Great, a codification of the laws of Pru ia made by Frederick the Great in 1751.- Code of honor, the social customs and rules of procedure which support and regulate the practice of dueling.- Code of 1650, a compilation of the early laws of New Haven Colony. Also called Ludlow's code, from Governor Roger Ludlow, who was chiefly responsible for its form and substance. -Code pleading, a simple system of pleading, by alleging the facts without fictions or technical forms, which was introduced in American practice by the adoption of codes of procedure as a substitute for common law and chancery practice. - Eaton code, a collection of laws made by Governor Eaton by authority of the General Court of New Haven Colony, and adopted by it. It was first published in London in 1656, and is largely composed of extracts from the laws of Ma achusetts. - Field codes, a series of codes intended to embody all the general laws of the State of New York (prepared by a commi ion of which David Dudley Field was the chief member), some of which were in substance adopted in that State, and all of which have been adopted in a number of other States. Chief among the reforms of the law introduced by these codes was the substitution of a single procedure in place of the technical forms and distinctions of common-law actions and equity suits, and the admi ion of parties and interested persons to testify as witne es. Greg or i an code, 196 and 295, of which only fragments have been preserved. It was compiled by Greg or i an us, a Roman jurist who lived probably about A. D. 300.-Hermogenian code, a code of Roman laws supposed to be from A. D. 287 to 304: so called from Hermogenianus, a jurist whose name frequently appears in the Digest. Fragments only have been pre a collection of Roman laws covering a between served. Some have supposed that the Greg or i an and Hermogenian were but one code. - Just in i an code, the body of Roman law compiled and annotated at the command of the Emperor Just in i an, who reigned A. D. 527-565. This consists of the Pandects, or the condensed opinions of the jurists, in fifty books, the Institutiones, and the No vellæ or Novellæ Const i tut i ones, a collection of ordinances, the whole forming the Corpus Juris Civil is, or body of civil law, the most important of all monuments of jurisprudence. Ludlow's code. See code of 1650, above. Papian code, a collection of Roman laws for the govern ment of the Roman subjects of the Burgundians, compiled between the years A. D. 517 and 523. The German subjects of the Burgundians were governed by the Lex Gondobada. S. Amos. The code, the code of honor (which see, above). - Theodosian code, a collection of Roman laws from the time of Const an tine to that of Theodosius II., first published A. D. 438, and comprised in sixteen books.