Judex

Lat.

In Roman law. A private person appointed by the prætor, with the consent of the parties, to try and decide a cause or action commenced before him. He received from the prætor a written formula instructing him as to the legal principles according to which the action was to be judged. Calvin. Hence the proceedings before him were said to be in judido, as those before the prætor were said to be in jure.

In later and modern civil law. A judge in the modern sense of the term.

In old English law. A juror. A judge, in modern sense, especially—as opposed to justiciarius, i. e„ a common-law judge—to denote an ecclesiastical judge. Bract, fols. 401. 402.

— Judex a quo. In modem civil law. The judge from whom, as judex ad quem is the fudge to whom, an appeal is made or taken. Halifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 34.

— Judex ad quem. A judge to whom an appeal is taken.

— Judex datus. In Roman law. A judge given, that is, assigned or appointed, by the prætor to try a cause.

— Judex delegatus. A delegated judge; a special judge.

— Judex fiscalis. A fiscal judge; one having cognizance of matters relating to the fiscus, (g. v.)

— Judex ordinarius. In the civil law. An ordinary judge ; one who had the right of hearing and determining causes as a matter of his own proper jurisdiction, (ex propria jurisdio tione,) and not by virtue of a delegated authority. Calvin

— Judex pedaneus. In Roman law. The judge who was commissioned by the prætor to hear a cause was so called, from the low seat which he anciently occupied at the foot of the praetor's tribunal.