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codicillus (kod-<<schwa>>-sil-<<schwa>>s), n. [Latin “little document”] Roman law. 1. An informal document instructing an heir to carry out a certain performance, usu. the payment of money or the transfer of property to a third person. • During the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.–A.D. 14), directives (fideicommissa) contained  in  codicilli became  legally binding. See FIDEICOMMISSUM. 2.…

codicillary (kod-<<schwa>>-sil-<<schwa>>-ree), adj. Of or relating to a codicil. [Blacks Law 8th]

codicil (kod-<<schwa>>-s<<schwa>>l or -sil). A supplement or addition to a will, not necessarily disposing of the entire estate but modifying, explaining, or otherwise qualifying the will in some way. • When admitted to probate, the codicil becomes a part of the will. [Cases: Wills  99.C.J.S. Wills § 214.] “A Schedule or supplement to a Will,…

Codex Theodosianus (koh-deks thee-<<schwa>>-doh-shee-ay-n<<schwa>>s). [Latin] See THEODOSIAN CODE. [Blacks Law 8th]

Codex Repetitae Praelectionis (koh-deks rep-<<schwa>>-tI-tee pri-lek-shee-oh-nis). [Latin “code of the resumed reading”] Roman law. See JUSTINIAN CODE. “By the time when the Digest and Institutes had been completed it was obvious that the Codex, published little more than four years earlier, was incomplete, since in the interval Justinian … had promulgated other new con-stitutions. Tribonian, therefore, was…

Codex Justinianus.See JUSTINIAN CODE. [Blacks Law 8th]

Codex Hermogenianus (koh-deks h<<schwa>>r-m<<schwa>>-jee-nee-ay-n<<schwa>>s). [Latin] Roman law. A collection of imperial constitutions compiled by the Roman jurist Hermogenianus and published in A.D. 295. • The Codex Hermogenianus supplemented the Codex Gregorianus. — Also termed Hermogenian Code. [Blacks Law 8th]

Codex Gregorianus (koh-deks gri-gor-ee-ay-n<<schwa>>s). [Latin] Roman law. A collection of imperial con-stitutions compiled by the Roman jurist Gregorius and published in A.D. 291. — Also termed Gregorian Code. “The imperial enactments, rapidly increasing in number, covering, at hazard, the whole range of law, and, by reason of difficulties of communication and imperfect methods of promulgation, not…

codex (koh-deks). [Latin] Archaic. 1. A code, esp. the Justinian Code. 2. A book written on paper or parchment; esp., a volume of an ancient text. [Blacks Law 8th]

code state.Hist. A state that, at a given time, had already procedurally merged law and equity, so that equity was no longer administered as a separate system; a state in which there is only one form of civil action. • This term was current primarily in the early to mid-20th century. Cf. NONCODE STATE . [Blacks Law…