In the East Just in i an created the so-called Corpus iuris

This consists of two principal parts, the law of the Jurists (ius vet us) and the Imperial law (ius principale), the latter of which was first executed (a. 528 sq.; revised and remodelled version a. 534). A commi ion was appointed for this purpose, the chief member being Tri bon i an us (546). The constitutions of the Emperors were again sifted from the extant collections and from the additions thereto, abridged and united in the twelve books of the Codex I us tin i an us. The extracts from the ius vet us were arranged in 50 books called Digest a, a. 530-533. On the basis of the new legislation a new manual was likewise elaborated by Tribonian, Theophilos and Dorotheos, the four books of Institutiones, chiefly after Gaius. To these collections of Just in i an were added subsequent ordinances, Novellæ, in several private collections, from a. 533 to about the end of the century, mostly in Greek. Though Just in i an, in causing these collections to be made, besides the craving to immortalise his name, was gov erned by the autocratic idea of establishing mechanical uniformity, foreclosing controversies among the lawyers and debarring the judge from the exercise of his individual opinion, still it was he who rescued the treasures of ancient jurisprudence, otherwise doomed to destruction, rendered po ible an historical treatment of Roman law by his Digest, and laid the foundation of all further development of that law. Teuffel and Schwabe, Hist. of Rom. Lit. (tr. by Warr), [II. 542. Corral (kor-räl'), Poinciano. Born in Costa Rica about 1810: died at Granada, Nicaragua, Nov. 8, 1855. A Central American general. He defeated Cas tell on early in 1855, and Walker in June of that year. In October he gave in his adherence to Walker and Rivas, and was made minister of war; but he was detected in a correspondence with the legitimist leaders, accused by Walker, tried, and shot. Correa da Serra (kor-rā'ä dä ser'rä), José Francisco. Born at Serpa, Portugal, June 6, 1750: died at Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, Sept. 11, 1823. A Portuguese naturalist, historian, and politician. He edited the first three volumes of the "Collecção de livros ineditos da hist or i a Portugueza" (1790-1816). Correggio (kor-red'jō), Antonio Allegri da. Born at Correggio, near Modena, Italy, 1494: died there, March 5, 1534. A famous Italian painter of the Lombard school, probably a pupil of Francesco Bianchi at Modena. His life was pa ed within the confines of Lombardy, in Correggio, Modena, and Parma. It is more than doubtful whether he ever visited Rome. "In facility of handling, in absolute mastery of the difficulties of foreshortening, in the management of light and shade as distributed over vast spaces and affecting multitudes of figures, this great master has no rival." Perkins . Corrèze (kor-rāz'). A department of France, lying between Haute-Vienne and Creuse on the north, Puy-de-Dôme and Cantal on the east, Lot on the south, and Dordogne on the west. It formed part of the ancient Limous in. Capital, Tulle. Area, 2,265 square miles. Population (1891), 328,119. Corrib (kor'rib), Lough. The second largest lake in Ireland, situated in the counties of Galway and Mayo. It receives the waters of Lough Mask, and has its outlet in the Corrib River. IMG:content-0377.png:[blocks in formation] vania, situated 26 miles southeast of Erie. It has been developed since 1861 by the discovery of petroleum. Population (1900), 5,369. Corsair (kôr's ar), The. A poem by Byron, published in 1814. Corsairs. [From Pg. cors a , a course or cruise.] Sea-robbers, chiefly from the Barbary coast, who infested the Mediterranean for many centuries. From the days when Barb a ro a defied the whole strength of the Emperor Charles V., to the early part of the present century, when prizes were taken by Algerine rovers under the guns, so to say, of all the fleets of Europe, the Corsairs were masters of the narrow seas, and dictated their own terms to all comers. Nothing but the creation of the large standing navies of the present age crippled them; nothing le than the conquest of their too convenient coasts could have thoroughly suppre ed them. During these three centuries they levied blackmail upon all who had any trading interest in the Mediterranean. The Venetians, Genoese, Pisans in older days, the Eng. lish, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and American Gov. ernments in modern times, purchased security by the payment of a regular tribute, or by the periodical present a tion of costly gifts. The penalty of resistance was too well known to need exemplification. You sands of Christian slaves in the bagnios at Algiers bore witne to the consequences of an independent policy. So long as the nations of Europe continued to quarrel among themselves, instead of presenting a united line of battle to the enemy, such humiliations had to be endured; so long as a Corsair raid upon Spain suited the policy of France; so long as the Dutch, in their jealousy of other states, could declare that Algiers was nece ary to them, there was no chance of the plague subsiding; and it was not till the close of the great Napoleonic wars that the Powers agreed, at the Congre of Aix la Chapelle in 1818, to act together, and do away with the scourge of Christen dom. And even then little was accomplished till France combined territorial ag grandizement with the rôle of a civilizing influence.