Civilization

In practice

A law; an act of justice, or judgment which renders a criminal process civil; performed by turning an information into an inquest, or the contrary.

Wharton.

In public law. This is a term which covers several states of society; it is relative, and has not a fixed sense, but it implies an improved and progressive eundition of the people, living under an organized government, with systematized labor, individual ownership of the soil, individual accumula. tions of property, humane and somewhat cultivated manners and customs, the institu. tion of the family, with well-defined and re. spected domestic and social relations, insti. CIv IsS. Lat. In the Roman law. A citizen; as distinguished from incola, (an inhabitant;) origin or birth constituting the former, domicile the latter.

Code, 10, 40, 7.